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Voices

Thanks from Amber’s family

By
Dan and Debbie Bernier-Sontag
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 — Issue 510

BRATTLEBORO — We thank this community for supporting the Amber Bernier scholarship at our fifth Walk for Amber StorySlam, cosponsored by Strolling of the Heifers.

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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

Cash-strapped Retreat pursues shutdown after rebuke by state agency

By
Randolph T. Holhut and Olga Peters
Wednesday, January 8, 2020 — Issue 543

Following futile proposals for further state funding and a public rebuke by a state official holding the pursestrings, the Brattleboro Retreat's board of trustees has voted to begin the process of closing or selling the psychiatric hospital that has been part of the region's landscape since 1834. Louis Josephson, the Retreat's president and CEO, called the scenario “the last and worst option.” Despite a letter to Secretary of Human Services Mike Smith that presented the decision as a fait accompli,

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Voices

We can consume food with an eye toward a changing climate

By
Deborah Lee Luskin
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 — Issue 515

All the food we eat comes with a carbon footprint. According to The New York Times's Climate Fwd: newsletter, “[a]bout a quarter of all planet-warming greenhouse gasses emitted each year are a result of how we feed the world.” Another 8 percent of greenhouse gases are the direct result of how much food we waste. Bringing reusable shopping bags to the grocery store is a small step toward a better environment, but what we choose to put in those bags...

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Arts

Life, love, and tolerance

By
Nancy A. Olson
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 — Issue 701

This year’s musical at Brattleboro Union High School, the 50th to be staged there, is “Fiddler on the Roof,” opening on Thursday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. With book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, it tells the story of Tevye, a poor dairyman, who lives with his wife Golde and their five daughters in the small Jewish village of Anatevka, in czarist Russia, in 1905. It is based on the short stories of...

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