BRATTLEBORO — Last year, on U.S. profits of $5.6 billion, Amazon didn't pay federal income tax.
The company's “warehouse associates,” who work at $12.63 per hour, did.
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. He adds: "I'm proud that in Windham...
State regulators have approved a $22.7 million expansion project designed to address “current and future facility needs” at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. The project's centerpiece is a new, four-story, 20,180-square-foot building that will house bigger operating rooms, relocated medical offices, and an expanded cardiac rehabilitation area. The changes aren't expected to significantly boost patient numbers at BMH; in fact, the Green Mountain Care Board said the project will slightly reduce the hospital's operating margin for the next several years. But the...
In the fall of 2004, my friend Kay's husband, the love of her life, left this world after a long illness. Kay decided to keep their tradition, and so, three months later, without her Richard, she went to the annual extended family Christmas weekend celebration they'd always gone to together. If you're a fellow widow, you will understand how surreal those days were for her, how deeply out of place she felt. How she went through the motions, physically present...
The Brattleboro Union High School Players will present Tom Stoppard's absurd comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on Friday, Oct. 18, and Saturday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. in the BUHS Auditorium. Admission is $5 at the door. This is a play where nothing happens, but it happens elaborately. It is a “clever, quirky, ingeniously crafted conundrum,” according to a news release, about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two non-entities in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pawns in an elaborate chess match they don't know...
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