Congratulations, Starr LaTronica! Brooks Memorial Library is very lucky.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Memorial Day is traditionally a time to honor those who died in service to their country. However, this year's Memorial Day service on the Common took time to focus on the living - the veterans of conflicts past, as well as their families - and to call attention to the service organizations that are there to help. That was the idea of American Legion Post 5 commander John Hagen, who organized this year's service. “If we're going to get more...
BRATTLEBORO-I recently challenged Ture Nelson, the Republican candidate for Vermont attorney general, to explain what seemed to me like unquestioning support for all controversial police actions. Having personally experienced, as crime victims, the frustration of the local prosecutor's catch-and-release program, both my wife and I fully get it that we have prosecutors who don't want to prosecute criminals. (In fact, our local state's attorney's office's "victim advocate" seems to think his job is to put us in our place and...
In 2015, Vermont Performance Lab launched the SEED Program in response to a growing need for support for dance artists working in New England. In its second year, the SEED Program will offer support to professional dance-makers living in Vermont who want to develop performance projects for small-scale touring. Artists can apply online at vermontperformancelab.org/seed, and applications are due by Dec. 1. “The SEED Program was designed to cultivate a stronger ecology for dance in our region by connecting artists...
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