RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
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...
On time and under budget are words every town wants to hear during a big construction project. The Police & Fire Facility Building Committee not only heard those words on Feb. 1, they saw the proof, as they held their meeting inside the new and nearly completed West Brattleboro Fire Station on South Street. Ground was broken for the new station - part of $14 million of upgrades and replacements for the town's now-obsolete public-safety buildings - back in August.
More and more people are using the third person plural - they/them - as their personal pronoun. I understand why people would want to do this. Many of those who call themselves “they” are simply expressing that they do not want to be characterized by the rigid gender norms associated with either gendered personal pronoun. Others are re-defining their own gender identity by identifying as nonbinary or trans. I get it. But I don't like it. I first thought my...
On Thursday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m., Main Street Arts presents the second local artist featured in this year's Taste of the Arts series. But the Westminster West-based writer Crescent Dragonwagon is the first whose words and art literally can be tasted. She's a James Beard Award-winning cookbook-memoirist, and a selection of recipes from her seven published cookbooks will be served. After a meal beginning with Dragonwagon's 7-Layer Middle Eastern Mountain and a cup of Pumpkin-Tomato Bisque, diners will move...
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