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Voices

So happy for family

By
Betsy Jaffe
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 — Issue 313

Love this story! Ana was my son Leo's preschool teacher. I am so happy for the family and the amazing resourcefulness and commitment that brought them all back together. So happy for Ana.

Voices

Please slow down

By
Emily Hallock

Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...

Free the drugs - one idea to address our collective trauma

By
Nancy Crompton

WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...

Republicans wary of Trump have the 'Jim Jeffords solution'

By
L. Michael Lovell

PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.

'Woeful ignorance or deliberate malice'

By
Marv Greenberg, DVM, CVA

MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,

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News

Sports return to Windham County

By
Ronan Khalsa
Wednesday, July 8, 2020 — Issue 569

While the COVID-19 pandemic is worsening in the southern and western states, Vermont has one of the lowest infection rates in the nation. Gov. Phil Scott and his administration credit their strategy of reopening the state slowly, coupled with most Vermonters wearing masks when they out in public, for keeping the coronavirus outbreak under control here. So, after weeks of waiting, the state has given the green light to Windham County's recreation departments and youth sports league to open the...

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Voices

New voices needed on Co-op Board

By
Marilyn Allen
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 — Issue 266

I am writing as a concerned shareholder in response to the letters by two members of the Brattleboro Food Co-op Board of Directors who have been forced to resign [Letters, July 23]. The Brattleboro Food Co-op is a nonprofit organization with a mission of service to the community in exchange for a tax-free status. The rules for nonprofit behavior are vague enough at times to allow actions and behaviors by the boards of directors that are questionable when viewed in...

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Arts

Storytelling returns to Main Street Arts

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 — Issue 699

A community favorite event that began in 2013, A Night of True Stories, is back at Main Street Arts on Friday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m. Creators of A Night of True Stories were motivated to offer encouragement and support to locals who aspire to tell their stories and to get them on stage. “Like The Moth format,” event organizers wrote in a news release, “the stories are true experiences, no more than 10 minutes long, and told without notes.

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