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Voices

Speaking freely

By
Douglas Grandt
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 — Issue 450

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).

Voices

‘Nobody knows what I’m going to do’

By
MacLean Gander

MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...

On being Jewish now

By
Deborah Lee Luskin

Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...

Some notes on bravery (and Brahms)

By
Meg Donahue

Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...

Looking beyond generalizations

By
Emily Carris Duncan

Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...

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News

Municipal EMS takeover plan may face state review

By
Kevin O'Connor
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 — Issue 747

Health care regulators have told municipal officials here that a pending $1.37 million fire department takeover of emergency medical services may require state review and approval. The Brattleboro Selectboard voted unanimously last fall for the town to drop its nearly 60-year contract with the private nonprofit Rescue Inc. - Windham County's largest and longest-serving EMS provider - and instead buy and operate its own ambulances starting July 1. At the time, local leaders said the selectboard vote was the last...

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Voices

Money and shade for farm workers

By
Hudson Smith
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 — Issue 440

People who pick our food might have to work for 10 hours a day, and some have to work for 14 hours a day. Kids sometimes work for 10 to 14 hours, too. People get really bad fevers in the sun. These workers don't get a lot of money. I want them to get a lot of money - and a nice, shady farm to work on.

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Arts

Leland & Gray Players open 22nd season with ‘Mary Poppins’

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 — Issue 433

The Leland & Gray Players' first show of its 22nd season is Mary Poppins by Julian Fellows, Richard Sherman, and Robert Sherman. In a news release, director Jessa Rowan said that this is “a musical that shows us how to discover the good in ourselves, how to find the magic in our everyday lives, and how to treat others with the utmost kindness. “Mary Poppins teaches us all lessons: how to turn our hearts to kindness and to love. She...

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