BRATTLEBORO — RE: “The artisan-cheese revolution” [Food & Drink, June 5]:
There is little in life that can't be helped by cheese.
ATHENS-Jeff Potter's column argues that because some United Nations officials and nongovernmental organizations argue Israel's...
BRATTLEBORO-Australian (secret) ballot is the only way all the registered voters of Brattleboro get to...
Tristan Roberts (tristan@tristanroberts.org) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
Daniel Quipp served on the Brattleboro Selectboard from 2019 to 2025. BRATTLEBORO-In the last month...
In one of the longest school board meetings in the town's history, voters decided 130-91 to send seventh- and eighth-graders to the Brattleboro Area Middle School starting in the 2013-14 school year. Since it was built in 1957, the Guilford Central School has educated students in kindergarten through eighth grade before sending them to Brattleboro Union High School for the rest of their secondary education. The decision to remove the town's middle school came after months of in-depth discussions and...
As dorky as it sounds, I remember watching the Watergate hearings after school when I was a young boy and thinking, “I'm not really sure who did what, but this must be what it looks like when a government cleans house and sticks to its rules.” Powerful men caught lying, covering microphones, repeating the mantra “I don't recall.” A U.S. president resigning in disgrace. Many players going to jail. Then came the change. * * * It started with the...
This fall, the Brattleboro Women's Chorus begins a year of celebrating 25 years of singing with online musical events on the 25th day of some months. All are welcome to join with them in song. At the first Zoom celebration, on Sunday, Oct. 25 from 4 to 5 p.m., chorus members will welcome Elizabeth Melvin, a song leader and choir director of the Freedom Choir in Maryland. Melvin and chorus Musical Director Becky Graber will share leadership of an hour...
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