BELLOWS FALLS — Please cease all quoting of Deb Wright. She is simply a nuisance. Amplifying her rants does not help, in any sense. She should have no spotlight.
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...
The bottom line: Property taxes for 2020 could rise by 3 cents per $100 of assessed value, “a higher number than we intended or hoped for,” said Town Manager Peter B. Elwell. That's because of unanticipated insurance costs, offset in part by increasing revenues from rooms and meals tax. Budget season is underway, and at the Nov. 6 regular Selectboard meeting, Elwell presented the board with a fiscal year 2020 budget season preview, noting that “our work is ahead of...
I thank the many people in the area who have traveled with me through the Brattleboro Senior Center program. Almost 15 years ago, former Activities Director Irene Alexa asked me to lead a small group of Brattleboro senior travelers to a St. Patrick's Day Celebration just for the day. From local day trips, to longer journeys (Nova Scotia; Prince Edward Island; Montreal; Nashville, Tenn.; Cape Cod; Ogunquit, Maine; New Orleans; and Savannah, Ga.), to one of our most memorable adventures...
As an undergraduate at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, John Steven Gurney discovered his love for children's books. He has illustrated more than 100 children's books over the years. But there, he found that “children's books were only some of the things I wanted to illustrate,” said the artist, who has also has worked on fiction book covers, editorial illustrations for magazines, puzzles, and advertising posters. His journey from Brooklyn to Brattleboro came after living in Brooklyn for 17...
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