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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

An epidemic remembered, a community mourned

By
Michael Gigante, Ph.D.

Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...

To recruit young workers, businesses need to show up and reach out

By
Dylan Stewart

BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...

Birthday parade, or Medicaid?

By
Jane Olmstead

NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...

'A deeply flawed system'

By
Timothy Belknap

Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...

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News

Candidates tout plans to boost Lt. Gov's relevance

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 — Issue 362

At a lieutenant governor candidate forum here June 14, an audience member submitted an index card featuring a pointed question: “With all due respect, why should we care?” The three Democrats seeking Vermont's second-in-command administrative job did their best to make their case for the office's relevance, and for their plans to personalize and transform the position. Their ideas differ in some respects. But Kesha Ram, Shap Smith and Dave Zuckerman each talked about the lieutenant governor becoming some combination...

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Voices

Split second

By
Anne-Marie Muscari
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 — Issue 695

I woke up overwhelmed with gratitude to be alive and well with my family by my side. The night before, I was awakened at 1:30 a.m. to my smoke/carbon monoxide alarms loudly sounding and telling us to evacuate the house immediately. We had this happen one other time, and it was just a battery issue. But this time seemed a little different, and something was telling me to not just unplug the alarms as I did before. I decided to...

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Arts

From the Archives, #

By
Alyssa Grosso
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 — Issue 785

NEWFANE-During the month of October Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, will present a variety of art work by Nora Daniel. The show will be taking place until October 29th. The title of the show is "Think Ink"– exhibiting ink drawings and paintings that vary between relatively realistic and more expressive, with a few watercolor pieces. Daniel has been doing these ink pieces for decades. The subjects range from people, animals, landscape, and more! Daniel explains...

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