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Voices

Prayers for Gagnon, Brattleboro

By
Sheila Sackett
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 — Issue 214

RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]:

After two years, reading this story breaks my heart. Richard Gagnon, thank you for writing. My prayers for you, and for everyone in Brattleboro, continue.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

Republicans in disarray over U.S. House, state Senate races

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 — Issue 677

The race for the U.S. House seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Peter Welch is not as clear-cut as it looked on election night. While Becca Balint of Brattleboro easily won the Democratic nomination, the top two vote-getters in the Republican primary will be running against the Senate president pro tem under different banners. Liam Madden of Rockingham received 35 percent of the vote to win the Republican primary, but there was some question about whether he would accept the...

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Voices

More important than words

By
William Hays
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 — Issue 484

My wife, Patricia, died beside me in bed. The shock of her departure threw me into a whirlpool of emotion unlike anything I ever anticipated. The depth of my loss was beyond what I might have foreseen and surpassed all of my life's experience. I lost my direction, my future, my compass. My dearest friend was gone in the most profound manner. My only good fortune at that point was that she was not my only friend. To others I...

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Arts

Storyteller brings Frightening Tales to Bellows Falls

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 — Issue 277

Storyteller Simon Brooks will kick off the season of scary things when he brings his “Frightening Tales” to Bellows Falls Middle School Thursday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. The program, sponsored by Main Street Arts, is recommended for teens and adults. Brooks promises stories that will chill listeners to the bone, in some cases as disturbing as Edgar Allan Poe's “The Black Cat.” A native of England, Brooks began telling stories in 1990 and has been a professional storyteller since...

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