DUMMERSTON — Many thanks to Ian Diamondstone and The Commons for the fine article on Mrs. Dalem and Dalem's Chalet. Very well done!
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, and Mollie Burke represent Brattleboro in the Vermont House of Representatives.
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
A deepening staffing crisis at Vermont's largest psychiatric hospital is forcing children and adolescents in distress to wait for days, or even weeks, for inpatient mental health beds. The Brattleboro Retreat is the only psychiatric facility in Vermont that works with children and adolescents. Staffing there has been tight for years, but a recent Covid-19 outbreak sidelined 30 staff members at one time, causing a backlog in child and adolescent admissions. Since December, children and adolescents have spent more and...
I'm frustrated with the so-called leadership of this country. The sound of President Biden's unity-themed inaugural address had barely faded when the democratically led Congress voted to impeach the former president for his incitement to riot on Jan. 6. Did he deserve it? Absolutely! Is he still in power? No. Does it say anywhere in the Constitution that the Congress needs to immediately send the article to the Senate for a trial? No. In case no one has noticed, there...
The Brattleboro Concert Choir (BCC) has launched its Stay-At-Home Sing-Along program in the spirit of enthusiastically committing to building and maintaining musical community. “Especially now, music is an essential source of joy, solace, solidarity, and hope,” the organization writes in a news release. Every other Sunday at 2 p.m., beginning Sept. 13, the BCC and Music Director Jonathan Harvey will host a collective online sing of great choral works. Selections will include favorite Romantic pieces by Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, and...
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