Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
A plan to drop the town's nearly 60-year contract with Rescue Inc. for a lower-priced emergency medical service lacks a state license just weeks before its scheduled July 1 start. Complicating matters, the current private nonprofit provider says it won't respond to local calls without negotiated compensation after June 30. As part of a presumptive transition plan for the local fire department to take over EMS duties, the Selectboard abruptly entered into a contract with the for-profit Golden Cross Ambulance...
When President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office just over 50 years ago, he sounded an alarm about the unhealthy relationship between defense contractors and the U.S. Military, which he said threatened American democracy. “In the councils of government,” he warned, “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.” Today, the threat of a media-industrial complex might be even...
Cellist Rushad Eggleston says he will entertain all who venture out to attend his Stone Church Arts concert on Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. at Immanuel Episcopal Church, the stone church on the hill, 20 Church St. His show, filled with highly-entertaining tomfoolery, encompasses the many different sides of his musical personality. In a news release, he says he “can play fluffy rainbow unicorn metal from a magic green dimension whose mystic tongues growl the delapitude of the future...
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