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.
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...
As someone who launched her first legislative campaign before she graduated from college, state Rep. Kesha Ram says she's used to being underestimated. “I think what my opponents and others didn't know about me at that time was that I am an incredibly hard worker,” said Ram, a Burlington Democrat now serving her fourth term in the House even though she has not yet reached age 30. Ram says she is bringing that same work ethic to the 2016 race...
Kevin O'Connor has been writing on Rescue Inc. all year, and every time he positions Rescue as the poor beleaguered service providers, so virtuous and innocent, assassinated by a rogue Town Manager from outside Vermont. Horrors! His front-page article is yet another op-ed disguised as journalism. The Selectboard was extremely transparent at the time of conflict: they released the threatening letter Drew Hazelton, chief of operations of Rescue, sent them, and Ian Goodnow and Liz McLoughlin, Selectboard chair and past...
April's First Wednesday event at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St., is “The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America,” and takes place live, April 6 at 7 p.m. Poets and writers Diana Whitney and Shanta Lee Gander will join Christal Brown, associate professor of dance at Middlebury College, in a conversation that explores how girlhood and womanhood in America are manifested across the boundaries of poetry, dance, and lived experience. Diana Whitney's edited work, You Don't Have to Be...
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