BRATTLEBORO — We were lucky to have Paul Cameron around as long as we did.
Enjoy North Carolina, Paul! We'll miss your dedication and kindness!
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...
“There have been so many changes in the ways in which we treat our mentally ill and our elderly in our society,” says Sandy Ware, who has witnessed those changes locally firsthand over a long career of helping others, mainly at the Brattleboro Retreat and its former nursing home for resident patients, Linden Lodge. At just 14 years old, Ware was hired by longtime Recreational Director Frank Dearborn to assist in running one of the playground programs for the recreation...
The conversation at our Brattleboro Food Co-op's recent annual meeting relating to a racial incident, and the ensuing descriptions of what happened at that meeting, did not make my falsely-accused black friend feel better. In fact, it drove the hurt deeper. She did have the courage to speak up at the Annual Meeting, and attendees did have the decency to listen to her, but this was not an occasion to be “full of pride.” As a 20-year Co-op member, I...
For young, aspiring professional musicians, the opportunity to participate in Marlboro Music, the Vermont summer community The New Yorker called “the music world's most coveted retreat,” is a dream come true. Rather than being coached by the likes of Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida and members of some of the world's leading string quartets, they actually get to play alongside them (a concept initiated at Marlboro), exploring works in a depth not possible elsewhere. That's why these exceptional young artists often,
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