BRATTLEBORO — This is a great story and tribute to Marty Rancourt. I can say I've known him since he was born.
Good luck to him as he opens a new door.
Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
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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,
For a democracy to work, the citizenry must have access to the work of government and the ability to make comment. The reasonable assumption, said Secretary of State Jim Condos, is that all municipal meetings and documents are public unless there is a specific exemption in state statute saying otherwise. Vermont's right-to-know laws, known separately as open- meeting and public-records laws, trace their authority back to the state's constitution. Chapter 1, Article 6 to be precise: “That all power being...
Sometimes victims are not able to hear about other victim experiences because they are still coming to terms with their own. Here is mine - and why I believe that many victims and survivors don't share theirs. My virginity was taken by a 38-year-old family friend when I was 16, a scenario that played out several times after. He had already encouraged me to embrace my sexuality and had taken pornographic pictures of me at 15. I received only a...
At 97, Peter Lindenfeld's present life is one to admire. His success, though, measured not in material wealth as much as in the riches of connections, good health, accomplishments, and action, was won with ample strife, as he tells in his memoir, Fragments of Time. “I'm living on borrowed time,” said Lindenfeld in a recent conversation. “I'm content with that; I'm just very fortunate and grateful to be alive and to be involved.” To read the 350-page work is to...
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