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Voices

Shining Starr

By
Pamela Guth
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 — Issue 333

Brattleboro is getting a shining Starr who has led, inspired, and ignited Building Brighter Futures for Broome, an agency that offers early childhood literacy strategies and supports!

Thank you, Starr LaTronica, for sharing your gifts and passion!

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

Planning Commission launches public outreach phase of zoning revisions

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 — Issue 291

Brattleboro's zoning regulations are undergoing their first overhaul in 30 years. The Town Planning Commission kicked off the public outreach and comment phase for the draft revisions of Brattleboro's zoning regulations with an open house and presentation at the Marlboro College Graduate Center on Jan. 22. “Cumbersome,” is how the Town Plan described Brattleboro's current zoning regulations, Planning Consultant Brandy Saxton, AICP, said, Saxton, owner of Port Henry, N.Y.-based planning and design firm PlaceSense, told the small audience that the...

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Voices

A matter of survival

By
Mollie Burke
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 — Issue 724

After Tropical Storm Irene did major damage to Vermont in 2011, the state recognized the need to prepare for future storms of that magnitude. People started to take the idea of climate-related weather events more seriously. In building back our infrastructure, the Agency of Transportation put in larger culverts and stronger bridges, and it paid attention to riverbank restoration, among other measures. Lessons were learned. Now, a mere 12 years after Irene, these improvements have been tested with catastrophic flooding.

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Arts

Students to perform Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ at The Grammar School

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 — Issue 484

The seventh- and eighth-grade students at The Grammar School in Putney will perform scenes from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 6:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public. This production is the culmination of an intensive artist residency with Vermont teaching artist John Hadden, an accomplished actor and director. This residency was made possible by a generous grant from the Vermont Arts Council. Hadden is a founding member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox,

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