BRATTLEBORO — I agree the wording on the ballot seemed biased.
The issue is the amendments were poor options for the most part, regardless of how they were presented.
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...
Voters in the five-town West River Modified Union Education District will need to continue the process of building a budget for fiscal year 2021 after narrowly defeating a proposed $12 million budget on June 10. “While disappointing, it is nice to see a very close vote during a financially insecure time,” Windham Central Supervisory Union Superintendent William Anton wrote in an email. With a combined vote of 218–221, voters in Brookline, Jamaica, Newfane, Townshend, and Windham defeated the budget for...
It's very difficult to talk about homeless people without seeming overly idealistic or fatalistic. Or, worse, to seem just clueless. Even the right phrase: homeless, houseless, homeless-by-choice, housing challenged, couch surfing, tent city-ing. To bastardize Leo Tolstoy, "every homeless person is homeless in his, her, and/or their own way." Since I live downtown, I've developed a passing relationship with several people who live downtown - on the street during the day and wherever they can at night. One of them,
Two Putney School students were among nine Vermont youth selected as 2021 national award recipients in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, with four winning gold medals and five receiving silver medals. Viva Vadim of Putney, grade 11, won the American Visions Medal for art, as well as a Gold Medal. She is a student of Vanessa Vadim. Anna Hubbard of Putney, also an 11th grader, won a Gold Medal for art. She is a student of Lynne Weinstein. Works...
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