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Voices

Handle with care

By
Laura Kaskur
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

One compromised spent-fuel canister could deliver an 1850 msv dose of radiation to the population within 1 mile.

I really don't think it's a good idea to be moving this stuff around too much.

Voices

Stand together and push back on April 5

By
Indivisible Brattleboro

BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...

Here’s how you can get in touch with federal lawmakers

By
Lori Larue

WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...

What will it take for us to get louder and more visible?

By
Calvin Dame

BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...

Attack on cultural diversity is mean, shameful, intentional

By
Paul Weber

TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...

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News

Highest honor

By
Randolph T. Holhut and Jeff Potter
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 — Issue 336

Like many men of his generation, Jay Karpin went off to war. Born in 1924, he enlisted in the Army Air Force the day after he graduated from Hicksville High School on Long Island in 1942, and he went through months of training to become a bombardier and navigator. He was assigned to the 493rd Bombardment Group, the last bomb group of the famed Eighth Air Force to become operational in Europe. And that is how the 493rd's - and...

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Voices

The erosion of courtesy in discourse makes us numb

By
Betty Armstrong
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 — Issue 437

Only one week after the shootings in Texas with 26 dead, including a fetus and its mother, my reaction has been rather strange. It is as if I have wrapped Teflon around my body, my soul, and my humanity. My reaction has been, “Oh, that's too bad. What's playing at the movies tonight?” There have been so many of these shootings and mass murders that I no longer have a humane and caring reaction to these events. They just roll...

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Arts

BMC opens Chamber Music Series with Sophie Shao & Friends

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 — Issue 325

The Brattleboro Music Center opens its 2015-16 Chamber Series with Sophie Shao and Friends on Saturday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m., at Centre Congregational Church on Main Street. Carmit Zori, violin; Jeff Neubauer, viola; Sophie Shao, cello; and Gilles Vonsattel, piano will perform Beethoven Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 16, Beethoven String Trio in G Major, op. 9 no. 1 and Dvorak Piano Trio in F Minor, op. 65 (for violin, cello, and piano). Shao has created a particular...

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