Isn't Martha M Moravec's writing awesome? Martha and I have been online friends for the past few years, and I'm excited to see her book become a reality.
Bravo!
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...
Concerned citizens soon will have a face-to-face opportunity to question the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the sale of Vermont Yankee. A spokesman says the NRC has “informally committed” to attending a future meeting of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel to discuss the plant's proposed license transfer to NorthStar Group Services. The commitment came after multiple requests for the NRC to travel to Vermont for a public meeting. A date for the meeting has not yet been set,
Now that it has been confirmed that Sam's Outdoor Outfitters on Main Street will be closing in April of 2024, there are so many ways to think about it. We could think about the big retail hole it will leave on Main Street, where it has been losing business for years. We could think about the dedicated Sam's employees, some of whom have worked for the owners, the Borofsky family, for decades, who will be losing their jobs and their...
Next Stage Arts Project continues its literary series, Next Stage Speaks, on Friday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m., with Bianca Stone hosted by poet Chard DeNiord. There is a suggested donation at the door of $10. Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist and the author of several chapbooks, most recently “I Saw The Devil With His Needlework” (Argos Books), and the poetry-comic “I Want To Open The Mouth God Gave You, Beautiful Mutant” (Factory Hollow Press). Her first...
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