What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...
It wasn't exactly with a stroke of the pen, but on May 2, in a unanimous voice vote, the five members of the Selectboard declared the town “compassionate.” Brattleboro is now a Compassionate City as articulated in the Charter for Compassion. What does this mean? And what are the town's responsibilities? These are questions Town Manager Peter B. Elwell and his staff researched to help the Selectboard prepare for their vote on the resolution. During the winter months leading up...
Nancy Braus, until recently an independent bookseller, is a longtime activist who contributes often to these pages. GUILFORD-For those of us baby boomers who grew up with dads (and a few moms) who fought in the European theater of World War II, or even those who fought in the Pacific, Nazis were always the unmentionables, the very embodiment of evil. Many of us had family who were in Nazi concentration camps themselves - I had a relative who survived Auschwitz.
New Amsterdam Records recording artist and frequent Yellow Barn contributor Travis Laplante performs his composition “Dissolving Mirror” in SOLOs Episode 5. Filmed on the Hooker-Dunham stage, Laplante's performance premieres simultaneously on BCTV and YouTube at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 26. Rolling Stone describes Laplante's tenor saxophone artistry as “head-spinning flights of circular breathing” combined with “sparse, prayerful lyricism” and cites his album Human among its selection of the “currents that shaped the [jazz] genre [in 2019] and the must-hear...
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