BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:
A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, and Mollie Burke represent Brattleboro in the Vermont House of Representatives.
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
Deb Tillinghast, eldest child of Marcel Leclaire Sr., remembers a day in May of 1967 when she was 12 years old and her father came home from work wrapped up in a blanket. “He stunk,” she remembers of her father, who had served the Brattleboro Police Department for almost 25 years, including as chief of police from 1981 to 1984. He died April 25 at the age of 89. “And he was cold. We had no idea why.” The reason?
Nancy Braus' letter on a Facist takeover (Commons, July 27, 2022) is rife with hackneyed progressive talking points and lacks real substance. Her rant is blatantly racist. She insinuates that black voters, black citizens, black men and people of color, and no other ethnic or political group can produce a legitimate ID; request, complete and return an absentee ballot; or otherwise find their way to the polls. This is absurd. William Barr, Trump's AG, found that, while there were election...
“Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man,” an exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), includes popular camouflage photographs from Bolin's celebrated series, “Hiding in the City,” and his subsequent “Hiding in New York.” To create these photographs, Bolin poses for hours in a landscape while his assistants paint him to create a camouflage, blending him into his surroundings. “My intention was not to disappear in the environment but instead to let the environment take possession of me,” he says.
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