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.
ATHENS-Jeff Potter's column argues that because some United Nations officials and nongovernmental organizations argue Israel's...
BRATTLEBORO-Australian (secret) ballot is the only way all the registered voters of Brattleboro get to...
Tristan Roberts (tristan@tristanroberts.org) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
Daniel Quipp served on the Brattleboro Selectboard from 2019 to 2025. BRATTLEBORO-In the last month...
For the first time, Vermont's affordable housing and homelessness advocates have joined forces and are calling for more than $200 million in public funding to address the state's housing and homelessness crises. Prioritizing the urgent need for more permanently affordable housing - housing built on the condition that rents will always be capped - the Housing & Homelessness Alliance of Vermont (HHAV) is asking the Vermont Legislature for $160 million in one-time funding for the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board...
My name is Oscar Heller, and I'm running for Selectboard. I believe I have the temperament and skills to do a great job on your behalf. I value thoughtfulness, hard work, and public engagement. I'm not afraid to admit when I don't understand something, or to ask hard questions on behalf of the public. And I'm not afraid to stand alone or take a hard vote if I disagree. I found Brattleboro through Camp Waubanong and moved here permanently 10...
Although Derrik Jordan doesn't particularly like being labeled a world fusion artist, he is pragmatic about it. “I'm like my good friend Will Ackerman, who is not fond of having his music being saddled with the label 'New Age,'” says Jordan. “But Will realized that however much he dislikes the term, and however inappropriate it seems to him to describe what he creates, that name is a way for people to come to his music, and [tells them] where to...
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