The truck driver person with the “angry stickers” is just exercising his, or her, First Amendment rights on their own truck!
God bless America (my First Amendment right to say, so exercised).
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
GUILFORD-A term often used regarding a military action is "collateral damage." This term masks the...
With barely a month of campaigning left before the Aug. 14 primary, three of the four Democratic candidates for governor came to the monthly Brattleboro Citizens Breakfast on July 6 to make their pitches before about 60 people. James Ehlers of Winooski, Christine Hallquist of Hyde Park, and Brenda Siegel of Newfane took turns answering questions that were submitted in advance of the event at the Brattleboro Senior Center. The fourth Democrat in the race, Ethan Sonneborn, an eighth-grader from...
In this year of political polarity, I was proud and heartened when the Vermont Legislature passed its budget with tri-partisan support and only one dissenting vote. That is until Governor Phil Scott vetoed it. I believe the governor's veto cannot be classified as anything but a political ploy, since the budget, as presented, is balanced, invests in growing our economy, and supports working families. While campaigning, Scott insisted he was committed to working across the aisle in the best interests...
Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener will give a free talk on Jewish mysticism, focusing on the teachings of the Kabbalah, at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Thursday, June 6, at 7 p.m. The talk will take place in the Museum's Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery, which currently features “Sandy Sokoloff: Emanation,” an exhibition of large, spherical, Kabbalah-inspired paintings. Rabbi Cohen-Kiener is the spiritual leader of Temple Israel in Greenfield, Mass. She was ordained by the Alliance for Jewish Renewal,
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