Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
Within the next couple of years, patrons of Brooks Memorial Library might have the option of sipping a coffee while reading their books. A coffee bar along the front east glass wall of the main floor was one of many renovations revealed by retiring Library Director Jerry Carbone to a full house of patrons and trustees on Oct. 29. Patrons use libraries differently from the way they did when the library was built in 1967, Carbone said. Some of the...
Pretty much everybody in Rockingham and Bellows Falls agrees that having to tear down historic buildings is a very sad thing, and that the time to act is early enough, before they are prohibitively expensive to save. Robertson Paper, the Stables by the Waypoint Center, the Methodist Church/Grange/YMCA.... all have been lost in the last few years. The Bellows Falls train station, constructed 100 years ago in 1922, is in need of extensive repair. Fortunately, the recently passed infrastructure bill...
Julian F. Thompson, author of 18 young adult novels, including The Grounding of Group 6, and the newly self-published author of Getting In, says he is one of a small number of adults who actually likes and gets along with teenagers. As such a person, he enjoys writing about and for them. He founded and ran an alternative high school for seven years, during which he learned more about the demographic he would later write for. “I started life as...
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