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Voices

Reminder of tremendous sacrifices

By
Dennis Grange
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 — Issue 175

RE: “Written in stone” [Editorial, May 30]:

I served with Bill Bassignani in Vietnam. Thank you for reminding people of the tremendous sacrifices made by the men and women in uniform, especially those in combat zones.

Voices

Please slow down

By
Emily Hallock

Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...

Free the drugs - one idea to address our collective trauma

By
Nancy Crompton

WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...

Republicans wary of Trump have the 'Jim Jeffords solution'

By
L. Michael Lovell

PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.

'Woeful ignorance or deliberate malice'

By
Marv Greenberg, DVM, CVA

MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,

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News

Thinking outside the box to solve town’s problems

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 — Issue 190

Ian Kiehle earned 1,400 votes the first time he ran for Selectboard five years ago. He didn't win. Yet he calls the number and the vote of confidence from fellow Brattleboroians gratifying. According to Kiehle, days before the Jan. 28 petition deadline, his wife, Katherine Innis, said he should run. Over the Jan. 25 weekend, a friend said he should run. Kiehle walked into Town Clerk Annette Cappy's office the morning of Jan. 28 and returned within a few hours...

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Voices

Can we learn how to live well in Vermont?

By
Tamara Stenn
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 — Issue 206

Bolivia is the poorest country of the Americas based on their total revenue produced, which has doubled in the last decade but still is less than $5,000 per person per year. But Bolivians are not impoverished. Behind the country's feeble earnings are creative and collaborative ways of living well which include community participation, collaboration, barter, self-sufficiency, and an average retail mark-up of just 30 percent, as opposed to the standard 100 percent used in the U.S. So while earnings are...

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Arts

BMAC hosts online discussion with four artists

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 — Issue 610

On Thursday, April 29, at 7 p.m., the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present a live Zoom conversation with Kenny Rivero, a Dominican American artist and musician; gallery director Charles Moffett; and artist and academic Michael Jevon Demps. The three will discuss Rivero's first solo museum exhibition - “Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers,” on view at BMAC through Sunday, June 13 - as well as the commonalities between Rivero's and Demps's work. Rivero describes his drawings as...

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