Voices
Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
Charles F. Monette is a poet, teacher, playwright, artist, actor, builder, and U.S. Army veteran.
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence,
BRATTLEBORO-Gutting the arts is unquestionably the wrong way to stimulate the economy. According to the website of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in 2024 "Arts and Cultural Industries Grew at Twice the Rate of the U.S. Economy, Adding $1.2 Trillion." So when the Trump administration announced its desire to close the NEA as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and then started to cut funding and pull grants, its actions plunged a cold knife directly...
BRATTLEBORO-A colleague on the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) Finance Committee and I undertook a comparative analysis of the funds Brattleboro's Human Services Committee had to allocate and similar spending by our adjoining towns and Putney and also such spending by eight towns - four just larger and four just smaller than Brattleboro in population. Data were collected in all cases for the current fiscal year. Brattleboro provides human service organizations with more money ($367,810) than is allocated in the 13...
PUTNEY-The Landmark Trust USA (LTUSA) invites the community to learn more about one of our region's most distinctive architectural typologies, one that many Northern New Englanders call home: the connected farm building. On Tues., May 14, at 7:00 p.m., LTUSA will host noted scholar and vernacular architecture historian Thomas C. Hubka to speak on his seminal book Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn. The presentation will take place at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, and will be livestreamed.
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