DUMMERSTON — Many thanks to Ian Diamondstone and The Commons for the fine article on Mrs. Dalem and Dalem's Chalet. Very well done!
Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
BRATTLEBORO-While it's encouraging that we're finally approaching a more inclusive way of recognizing the voices...
BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9...
Peter Adair is the author of the books Sacred Universe and Sacred Earth. WESTMINSTER WEST-Unlikely...
Throughout the morning, the numbers written in grease pencil on the windshields of waiting cars ticked upwards: 365, 371, 387, 400. By the end of the afternoon of May 27, the organizations distributing food to hungry Vermonters at Brattleboro Union High School estimated that they loaded 975 cars with “food kits” - boxes of emergency food to feed households from across Windham County. As drivers waited for the distribution through the Farmers to Families program, the trail of cars started...
BRATTLEBORO-I'm lucky. Like many readers, I live in Brattleboro, one of the most open-minded towns in one of the most open-minded counties in one of the most open-minded states in the country. A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I heard Becca Balint - our sole Vermont U.S. representative and a kick-ass, take-no-prisoners, LGBTQ former schoolteacher - talk about what's actually going on in Washington. She made it clear that it's as through-the-looking-glass batshit-crazy as we feared. But remarkably,
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton and her Handsome Band, plus fellow singer-songwriter Milton at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill, on Thursday, May 9, at 7 p.m. Blanton has been described as a songwriter with "hooks, chutzpah, and revolutionary optimism," say organizers in a news release. Inspired by artist-activists including Nina Simone and Woody Guthrie, her catalog includes American popular song from folk and swing to pop-punk protest anthems. Her "unique mix of hook-driven pop...
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