PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
Good day to you, southeastern denizens of the Green Mountain State! Man oh man, has a tropical air mass overtaken our region! The atmospheric setup that has provided us with this soupy and sultry set of days has paired high pressure out over the western Atlantic Ocean with low pressure over the Great Lakes. Given the counterclockwise flow to the west of us, and the clockwise flow to the east of us, an area of convergence (i.e. air coming together)
I'm lighting a candle this morning for Bill Oates, my old friend. We are living through a sad and sorry time in our nation's history - especially in regard to how we handle death in our communities. By the time this pandemic ends, we'll have officially lost at least a million of us to Covid. We probably have already. In the first months of the disease, folks had to say goodbye to their loved ones by cell phone, or from...
On Saturday, Feb. 15, the Brattleboro arts venue Epsilon Spires will host “Phobos,” a performance of imaginative mechanical instruments designed by the Portuguese collective Sonoscopia. Described by its creators as a “dysfunctional robotic orchestra,” the instruments used in the performance reconfigure familiar objects like telephones and electronic children's toys into complex contraptions that create a surprisingly pleasing cacophony. According to Sonoscopia, the small robots and automatic music generation devices of “Phobos” were designed to critique attempts at human liberation through...
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