SAXTONS RIVER — RE: “Former library director envisions lawsuit” [News, Sept. 25]:
It's about time someone revealed the truth. Thank you for your reporting on this very serious injustice.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
After recent spirited debate, the state Senate gave preliminary approval to a Brattleboro charter change that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in municipal elections. That change also would allow youth voters to run and serve as town meeting representatives and on the Selectboard. The vote was 20–9. At times, the debate on the virtual Senate floor on Feb. 11 offered glimpses of senators as parents. Sen. Ruth Hardy, D-Addison, a parent to a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, said,
Advocates at the Women's Freedom Center have been talking about the intersection of violence against women and Valentine's Day. We are not out at local stores, misty-eyed, poring over the Hallmark selection. Nor are we fingering the lacy heart shaped boxes of Whitman's Chocolates. Instead, we recognize the unavoidable pit in mid-stomach, when a woman is at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital or Grace Cottage Hospital waiting for the SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) to swab for forensic evidence that a rape...
The Brattleboro Words Project's next monthly Roundtable Discussion will examine the history of Jacob Estey and how the famous Estey Organ Company helped shape American consumer culture and promote Brattleboro internationally. Dennis Waring, author of Manufacturing the Muse: Estey Organs and Consumer Culture in Victorian America, will lead the discussion. It will be held at the Estey Organ Museum, 108 Birge Street, on Thursday, June 14, at 6 p.m. Although there were many manufacturers of reed organs, Estey's dominance in...
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