BRATTLEBORO — Nicole Plympton was my daughter's teacher last year, and she was so loved and respected! I am thrilled that she is getting this recognition. Congratulations!
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...
The feature act at the Brattleboro Film Festival's “Night in Havana” fundraiser is a performance by the sextet De Lomas y Sones, led by Cuban percussionist William Armando Rodriguez. Rodriguez, who lives in Brattleboro, was born in Santiago de Cuba. Although he began studying at Escuela Vocacional de Arte José María Heredia, an elementary school focusing on music, when he was 9 years old, music was not his first choice. “I love sports,” Rodriguez said, noting his father is a...
Tim Wessel is a former member of the Brattleboro Selectboard and was an independent candidate for state Senate in 2023. At a few pro-Palestinian protests that have taken place in town, two of which I've witnessed in person, I've seen several of my good friends and many other familiar Brattleboro faces - people whom I greatly respect, sincerely expressing their horror at the civilian casualties that have happened in Gaza. As a father, I connect viscerally with this horror, and...
Bartleby's Books will host a discussion and book signing with Newfane's Archer Mayor, author of the highly acclaimed Joe Gunther detective series, on Friday, Oct. 7, at 6:30 p.m. In addition to writing The New York Times bestselling detective series, Mayor is a death investigator for Vermont's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, a detective for the Windham County Sheriff's Office, the publisher of his own backlist, a travel writer for AAA, and travels the Northeast giving speeches and conducting...
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