RE: “Having his back” [News, March 13]:
An amazing write up about amazing people. Keep it coming!
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...
Lamont Barnett, the town's newly elected Selectboard chair, has admitted knowingly acting on behalf of the full board - without approval and in violation of the state's Open Meeting Law - when he signed two letters of support at the request of a constituent “at the eleventh hour.” The constituent also happens to be another public official - Saxtons River Trustees Chair Louise Luring - who has described the infraction as a “tempest in a teapot, [a] mountain out of...
More than 10 percent of the people in Vermont prisons are African American. Just 1 percent of people in Vermont are black. No other nation on earth incarcerates such a high percentage of its people. As of 2008, the USA had about 751 people in prison or jail for every 100,000 in population. “England's rate is 151; Germany's is 88; and Japan's is 63.” That's according to a 2008 New York Times article, and those numbers were virtually unchanged as...
The Vermont Folklife Center welcomes back to its home turf the legendary drag troupe Ladies of the Rainbow for a bawdy performance, “Mistresses of Mayhem: The Ladies of the Rainbow Return,” on Saturday, April 26, at 8 p.m. The show is at the Carl M. Dessaint VFW Post 1034, 40 Black Mountain Rd. Doors open at 7 p.m. This evening of adult comedy and general entertainment marks the 10th anniversary of the Ladies' first downtown Brattleboro appearance, and is a...
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