BRATTLEBORO — Integrity is a rare word these days. Susan Keese had it!
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
GUILFORD-A term often used regarding a military action is "collateral damage." This term masks the...
Town-funded consultants and the region’s main emergency medical provider concur on a key finding in a $39,000 review of local ambulance options: All provide quality care. If only they could agree on everything else. A new feasibility study by Wyoming’s AP Triton consulting firm concludes that Rescue Inc. — Windham County’s largest and longest-serving ambulance service — is the most economical choice for maintaining current local coverage. In comparison, a proposed Brattleboro Fire Department takeover of EMS duties would increase...
Thanks to the wonders of interlibrary loan, I'm reading The Place No One Knew, a 1963 Sierra Club book by photographer Eliot Porter, about the incomparable Glen Canyon in Utah just before it was flooded and lost forever, thanks to U.S. Department of the Interior and the thirst of white people in the southwest and California. The book is a series of magnificent photographs opposite memorable quotations. One of these, by famed Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas, particularly struck...
On Friday, March 12, at 5 p.m., researcher and conservationist Jonathan Slaght will be the guest at the Brattleboro Literary Festival's virtual Cocktail Hour. Slaght is the Russia/Northeast Asia coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). He manages research projects involving endangered species such as Blakiston's fish owls and Amur tigers, and he coordinates WCS avian conservation activities along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway from the Arctic to the Tropics. He is considered to be one of the world's foremost experts...
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