This is to all the anti-Vermont Yankee people: What about the weather station they generously pay for on the two-way radio?
Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
BRATTLEBORO-While it's encouraging that we're finally approaching a more inclusive way of recognizing the voices...
BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9...
Peter Adair is the author of the books Sacred Universe and Sacred Earth. WESTMINSTER WEST-Unlikely...
The feature act at the Brattleboro Film Festival's “Night in Havana” fundraiser is a performance by the sextet De Lomas y Sones, led by Cuban percussionist William Armando Rodriguez. Rodriguez, who lives in Brattleboro, was born in Santiago de Cuba. Although he began studying at Escuela Vocacional de Arte José María Heredia, an elementary school focusing on music, when he was 9 years old, music was not his first choice. “I love sports,” Rodriguez said, noting his father is a...
Ever wonder why so many of us lose our voice precisely at the moment we need to ask for help? Credit shame, the pivotal emotion that drives self-defeating behavior, together with all-or-nothing thinking, our most common cognitive distortion. “Shame,” much like “stress,” means different things to different people. Here, shame refers to our ongoing sense that we are imperfect. Our sense of an imperfect self can, however, serve us well - provided we accept it and are open about it...
Pat Daddona will host an afternoon songwriter's circle with Jan Sheehy and George Nostrand on Sunday, Sept. 19 at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge St. Artist Felicity Haselton will exhibit her bold, optimistic, celebratory, colorful work starting at 2 p.m. She'll also be on hand during the break and after the show. Prints will be available. Four 10-minute short slots with local performers Ezra Holloway, Will Stahl, Kyla Rose, and Trevor Robinson will begin at 3 p.m., preceding the songwriter's...
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