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Voices

Wants to hear more about options

By
Jack Lilly
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 — Issue 467

DUMMERSTON — Wonderfully detailed and complete article on the status of recycling and trash disposal but no information on how options affect the environment and climate change.

I would love to read more in a future story.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

Climate survey shows ‘not great’ results at BUHS

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, May 18, 2022 — Issue 664

Brattleboro Union High School officials have disclosed the results of their internal climate survey from the fall, and they aren't great. “This survey was given in mid-October,” said Curriculum Coordinator Paul Smith. “In some cases this is not surprising. Things were in pretty rough shape in October, coming back to school after extended time to being around other students created some friction. It's not great - no question.” “Nevertheless, the percentile of scores are alarming,” said Windham Southeast School District...

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Voices

Nazism in our politics makes a terrifying comeback

By
Nancy Braus
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 — Issue 767

Nancy Braus, until recently an independent bookseller, is a longtime activist who contributes often to these pages. GUILFORD-For those of us baby boomers who grew up with dads (and a few moms) who fought in the European theater of World War II, or even those who fought in the Pacific, Nazis were always the unmentionables, the very embodiment of evil. Many of us had family who were in Nazi concentration camps themselves - I had a relative who survived Auschwitz.

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Arts

Next Stage presents John Gorka, plus folk duo Lizzy Mandell and Barry Stockwell

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 — Issue 717

Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present contemporary folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John Gorka, plus folk duo Lizzy Mandell and Barry Stockwell, at Next Stage on Sunday, June 4, at 7 p.m. at 15 Kimball Hill Rd. Gorka “is perhaps the quintessential iconic singer/songwriter of the 1980's folk scene,” organizers say. Hailing from New Jersey, “he honed his craft and persona as a shy, wry, and insightful singer-songwriter in the Greenwich Village Fast Folk and Boston music scenes.” Gorka...

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