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Focus on Act 46
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Focus on Act 46

On towns’ options for school choice and the pressure for change
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — Issue 355

• Viewpoint: Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe on towns' ultimate autonomy in offering school choice to their respective students.

• Counterpoint: Compass School Director Rick Gordon responds to Holcombe's piece.

• Viewpoint: David Schoales, a member of the Brattleboro Selectboard and Town School Board, offers his personal point of view on the rush to change.

Voices

Descendants of victims of a genocide are now falsely accused of committing one

By
Mark Trienkman

ATHENS-Jeff Potter's column argues that because some United Nations officials and nongovernmental organizations argue Israel's...

Australian ballot voting would make decisions more democratic

By
John P. Kennedy

BRATTLEBORO-Australian (secret) ballot is the only way all the registered voters of Brattleboro get to...

Rethinking Enclosure, and the voices we've lost

By
Tristan Roberts

Tristan Roberts (tristan@tristanroberts.org) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...

Restoring bridges would benefit Brattleboro

By
Daniel Quipp

Daniel Quipp served on the Brattleboro Selectboard from 2019 to 2025. BRATTLEBORO-In the last month...

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News

Humane Society plans ahead for a new furry clientele

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 — Issue 768

BRATTLEBORO-The Windham County Humane Society (WCHS) is nearing completion of its expansion project that includes a veterinary clinic for public and shelter animals - and a local woman is returning to help run it. Dr. Alyssa Cote, who was born and raised in Bellows Falls, will work part time at WCHS's Pet Wellness Center along with Dr. Tara Torcoletti, staff veterinarian; Dr. Susan Kelly, volunteer veterinarian; and visiting veterinarian Dr. Sara White. Cote will start work at the clinic in...

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Voices

‘Good luck to us all’

By
Diane Lischer
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 — Issue 575

We have arrived at another historic moment in the time of corona, and finally learned who Joe Biden has chosen to be his running mate. The choices were dramatic as we waited to hear who among the infinitely qualified women would be the best to bolster the candidacy of one older white man running to replace another older white man. This decision has become the strategic card played in a game with the highest stakes ever: whether the destruction of...

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Arts

‘Psychedelic and electrifying’

By
Victoria Chertok
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 — Issue 692

Wolfman Jack Band leader and drummer Jack Betzen of Alstead, New Hampshire, just returned from playing a week of shows in Florida with The Garcia Project. “We had a string of great shows in Florida; it was warm for almost all of them,” Betzen said. “We kept on rockin' out, even though the last show was outdoors and a bit on the cool side so they had a heater on stage for us, which is admirable,” he says. On Dec.

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