BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Jeebus! And thank you, Wendy M. Levy [“A union-busting law firm separates Co-op from its expressed ideals,” Letters, Oct. 17], for your articulation of the problem.
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. He adds: "I'm proud that in Windham...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) will hold a public hearing about the proposed fiscal year 2024 school operating/capital budgets on Tuesday, March 21 in the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium. Business Manager Frank Rucker says he believes the board “supports this budget as a fiscally responsible plan to respond to our school's student and community needs.” The proposed $62,704,054 general operating budget for FY 2024 represents a $1,620,583 or 2.7 percent increase to this year's operating budget. However, the...
Poor, disenfranchised Thomas Abbotts. Our neighbor from Newfane clearly needs a dictionary, a civics lesson, and a reality check. Mr. Abbotts complains that by outnumbering and out-yelling the MAGA brigade during their recent rally in downtown Brattleboro, the protesters were “terrorizing us into silence.” First, let's take a moment to address the difference between “silencing” and “disagreeing.” I'm struggling to understand how the protesters - of which I was one - were guilty of censoring anyone's speech. The MAGAs were...
Dorian Elgers-Lo, a 17-year-old senior at Amherst (Mass.) Regional High School, was this year's winner of the Windham Orchestra's 26th annual Concerto Competition, for young musicians, held at the Brattleboro Music Center on Feb. 12. Elgers-Lo has been playing piano for 10 years, studying previously with Ludmila Krasin, and currently with Gilles Vonsattel. He has won several regional and state piano competitions. In 2011, he placed second in the Bay State Contest, and placed first in the Young Artists' Piano...
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