Excellent article. Murder is never an acceptable solution for workplace conflict. I get the sense that one interruption in the chain of events would have caused things to turn out differently.
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
All summer, Lt. Gov. Molly Gray has been doing a listening tour through Vermont, but it took until the first full week of autumn for Gray to arrive to the southern part of the state. Gray has now been to every county in Vermont on what she calls the Recover Stronger tour. She said she and House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, and Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint, D-Brattleboro, have been gathering feedback from people around state, and the three...
Vermont Fish and Wildlife says the deer population is too large, and so they will issue more muzzle-loader licenses this year. Good, I get it. Too many deer means both an increase in Lyme disease and over-browsing of young trees, which damages the forests. Now, to meet that same logical objective, how about stopping the wanton slaughter of coyotes? The forests are out of balance not because we issue too few hunting licenses, but because we have killed off all...
Two examples of early cinema will be shown at Epsilon Spires on Saturday, March 18, starting at 8 P.M.: Alfred Hitchcock's last silent film, Blackmail! (1929, 76 minutes), and Lois Weber's Suspense! (1913, 10 minutes). This event kicks off the spring 2023 series of silent films screened with live musical accompaniment in Epsilon Spires' converted historic chapel. Blackmail! follows the travails of a young woman who kills a man while defending herself from assault and is then blackmailed by an...
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