BRATTLEBORO — Shela Linton has always been awesome for Brattleboro. She wants to empower other people.
In light of this kind of commitment, activism becomes clear as humanitarianism.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, and Mollie Burke represent Brattleboro in the Vermont House of Representatives.
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
Brattleboro's municipal government and the town's nearly 60-year nonprofit emergency medical service provider are on course to part ways because of an escalating contract dispute. Newly hired Town Manager Yoshi Manale announced on April 11 that Rescue Inc. would stop responding to Brattleboro calls as of July 1, leading his office to draft a transition plan to hire a private ambulance company until the local fire department can secure enough employees and equipment to take over. “After a careful internal...
In our debates about gun violence in the United States, one longstanding element in play complicates the issue and further drives anger, division, and inaction. That element is our propensity for claiming we know causality with little to no evidence to back us up. Rather than take the sometimes-hard effort to look for solid facts and debate their veracity and relevance, we knee-jerk grab our emotional “feel-bad” notions. These speculative exercises in blame and shame somehow satisfy our immediate need...
Sense and Nonsense, the sixth in the SOLOs series of performances filmed on the Hooker-Dunham stage, airs Friday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m., and will simultaneously stream on YouTube and BCTV. The showing will be followed by an online public after- party with the cast of the co-production between the Hooker-Dunham Theater and the Rock River Players. Sense and Nonsense consists of a series of monologues that take aim at the destructive nonsense of gender stereotypes. • Cyndi Cain Fitzgerald's...
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