BRATTLEBORO — A ban on sale of assault weapons would be good.
A ban on sale of votes by Congress would be better.
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
Outgoing Brattleboro Development Credit Corp. Executive Director Jeffrey Lewis says his legacy is what's happening now: the region's economy is still growing into what it will become. “You have to trust other people,” said Lewis, who retires this month from the nonprofit commercial economic development organization after 7½ years and as one of the leaders of the Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategy (SeVEDS), a nonprofit that, as its website says, “exists to reverse the Windham Region's economic decline.” The organization...
We are all responsible for the massacre in Afghanistan. We permit this war to continue, so the Army and the Marines are forced to rely on enlisted personnel who are sent back, again and again, into combat duty. As a combat veteran with the 100th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II, my experience has shown that people have limits before they crack - limits that no one can predict, since each person is different. If we are to...
On Saturday, March 30, from 1 to 4 p.m., acclaimed pysanky artist and instructor Jenny Santa Maria will lead a hands-on workshop at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on the traditional Ukrainian folk art of egg decoration. Participants will leave the workshop with a beautiful decorated egg. Pysanky technique is similar to batik. Patterns are drawn on an egg with hot beeswax, which protects covered areas from subsequent applications of colored dyes. When the wax is removed, a multi-colored...
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