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Voices

Reader moons over Crescent

By
Mindy Lawrence
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 — Issue 267

This is a well-written article on Crescent Dragonwagon. I am an alumnus of Fearless Writing and love her honesty when she speaks. She is an outstanding instructor and positive influence.

Voices

Here’s how you can get in touch with federal lawmakers

By
Lori Larue

WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...

What will it take for us to get louder and more visible?

By
Calvin Dame

BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...

Attack on cultural diversity is mean, shameful, intentional

By
Paul Weber

TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...

Trump’s attacks on immigrants threaten all of us

By
Lachlan Francis

Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. He adds: "I'm proud that in Windham...

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News

Brattleboro takes stock on 25th World AIDS Day

By
Randolph T. Holhut and Jeff Potter
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 — Issue 232

When Ricky Davidson was a teenager in the early 1980s, “we knew about AIDS - well, we had heard about it - but no one we knew had it. We just knew it was an automatic death sentence, names were in the paper almost daily of those who had died, but it was always someone else, someplace else.” That attitude, he said, was much different than what he hears from the teens we works with today at the Brattleboro Boys...

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Voices

Dispatch from a once-invisible teenager

By
Shanta Lee Gander
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 — Issue 505

This column is inspired by all the young people I talked with for the story we recently wrote about youth. I continue to think about the strength, and resilience of many of the young women who talked with us. Upon returning home at night and taking off my journalist hat, their stories made me think about my own invisibility during my adolescence. I grew up in Hartford, Conn., and my interior life was different from my surface life. I masked...

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Arts

Classic Dylan for the Age of Trump

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 — Issue 455

On Saturday, April 21, at 8 p.m., Cracked Glass Productions presents “Dylanophrenia, Classic Dylan for the Age of Trump.” The Same Thing Band performs classic songs of Bob Dylan chosen for their relevance to our current political scene. For more than 20 years, The Same Thing has been dedicated to giving voice to Dylan's music. “Dylan was instrumental in so many political awakenings, including my own,” Jon Mack, manager of the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery and a member of the...

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