BRATTLEBORO — RE: “The artisan-cheese revolution” [Food & Drink, June 5]:
There is little in life that can't be helped by cheese.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
BRATTLEBORO-Property taxes will go up about 8% after the Selectboard voted unanimously July 9 to adopt the fiscal year 2025 property tax rate. Their vote was essentially a rubber stamp to pay for what was decided at this year's Representative Town Meeting, the Grand List, and state-mandated education rates, as Finance Director Kim Frost explained. "The good thing is state statute requires that the Selectboard set the rate, but every decision has been made, so that's a good thing," said...
As a former resident of Washington state, I was following the developments in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle (Capitol Hill Occupy Protest, or CHOP) with great interest. Once the killings started, my heart ached. The first thing CHOP did was establish a border of several blocks staffed by armed guards. As violence began to break out, there were individuals making up the rules as they went along. There were assaults, robberies, and more before the killing began. The strong...
Visual artist Karen May Sorensen will be easy to recognize at ArtRageUs1 during June's Brattleboro Gallery Walk. “I will be the one wearing a handmade papier-mâché stag horns and mask,” Sorensen says. “Already I had to get started on the papier-mâché early, since these things need time to dry and paint.” For the month of June, Karen May Sorensen will be the featured artist at ArtRageUs1, an art collective that carries unique and affordable art and crafts by area artisans,
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