BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for documenting Bill Guay's effect on us.
A memorial is being planned for Mon., Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, 190 Main St., Brattleboro.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, and Mollie Burke represent Brattleboro in the Vermont House of Representatives.
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
Nearly a year after dropping the town’s longtime emergency medical provider with little public notice or debate, local leaders plan to ask taxpayers to fund a “to be determined” budget line item for ambulance service. Town Meeting voters approved $285,600 last March they assumed was for Rescue Inc., which had covered the community for nearly 60 years. Instead, the Selectboard pulled the contract with scant explanation a month later in favor of having the fire department assume EMS duties. Local...
Kudos to you for running the piece by Gerard Cloutier as a counterpoint to all of the irrational assumptions about Donald Trump and his supporters leveled by MacLean Gander [“From type to stereotype,” Essay, Dec. 5, 2018]. It is never OK to make wide-ranging assumptions about people you've never met, based on little more than their skin color and political affiliation. Cloutier's counterpoint essay provides a much-needed answer to that kind of divisive writing. There were many people who voted...
“We don't live in a democracy, ” says Thomas Linzey of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. “And if you live in a corporate state the only thing left is to dismantle it and build something new." That is the guiding theme behind the film, We the People 2.0, which will be screened by the Climate Change Café on Tuesday, March 28, at 6 p.m., at Brooks Memorial Library in Bratteboro, according to a news release. As always, the event is...
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