RE: “Can a bicycle replace the family car?” [News, Nov. 7]:
A spot of inspiring news! If people in Vermont can ride bikes even in the winter, we certainly can here in California!
Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
Over the objections of town officials, the state has approved construction of a new AT&T cellular tower designed to improve service in the Interstate 91 corridor and other areas. The Vermont Public Service Board issued a certificate of public good to AT&T Mobility and Blue Sky Towers LLC to build a 120-foot monopole tower at 1227 Putney Road, just north of the roundabout at I-91 Exit 3. While Brattleboro officials had protested the project's aesthetic impacts, the board noted that...
In a recent commentary, Selectboard member Brandie Starr called into question the commitment that landlords have to providing affordable housing. She asked, “Landlords, what do you want to invest in? Are you investing strictly in the property, with the highest cash value? Or are you invested in the community in Brattleboro?” We'd like to answer that question by sharing our story. Our parents were landlords in Brattleboro for 48 years. They started as renters, living in a second-floor apartment on...
He was born Jerome Solon Felder in Brooklyn in 1925. A son of Jewish immigrants, he contracted polio as a child and was left paralyzed, needing crutches and a wheelchair to get around. He would reinvent himself as a blues singer named Doc Pomus, and then go on to become one of the great pop songwriters of the 1950s and 1960s. You might have seen his name in the small print on the 45s that contained his greatest hits -
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