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Voices

Keeping perspective

By
Keri Roberts
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 — Issue 306

WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Newfane holds ‘drive-thru’ voting on school budget

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, June 17, 2020 — Issue 566

Three drivers followed the line of orange construction cones to the pop-up tent in the parking lot of the NewBrook Volunteer Fire and Rescue Station on Route 30 on June 10. Selectboard member Shelly Huber checked off the driver's name on the voter checklist.She then handed the driver a ballot. On the opposite side of the tent, Town Clerk Carol Hesselbach dropped a completed ballot into the red wooden ballot box, and checked the driver's name off a second voter...

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Voices

We are life, too, and we need to stay warm

By
Jessie Haas
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 — Issue 710

Regenerative farmers like to say, “It's not the cow, it's the how,” when people tell them animal agriculture is overheating the planet. I'm not clever enough to think up a saying like to defend wood heat, but the same concept applies: If we do it dumb, it's bad. If we do it smart, it isn't. So in response to Rick Cowan, here are a couple of thoughts about the Affordable Heat Act. One: I sure was glad my mom had...

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Arts

Bruce Mandel performs at Wardsboro Town Hall

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 — Issue 469

Bruce Mandel performs on Friday, July 27, as part of Wardsboro Curtain Call's 2018 Music Series. Mandel's acoustic guitar, keen lyrical ear, and intimate and honest voice have traveled with him across the country and through musical territory both new and familiar, according to a news release. “Lyrically driven, the diverse sounds of his recordings straddle and expand the contemporary folk, Americana, and singer/songwriter genres, reflecting the breadth of Mandel's experience,” according to the release. Singer & Musician writes: “reminiscent...

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