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...
At the Skywarn spotter training, a citizens' severe-weather seminar held in April at Grace Cottage Hospital, National Weather Service (NWS) Meterologist-In-Charge Raymond O'Keefe offered some stories and statistics about local weather and told attendees which types of storms are most common during warm-weather months. The NWS Weather Spotter's Field Guide says, “The U.S. is the most severe-weather-prone country in the world.” The guide says that each year, “people in this country cope with an average of 10,000 thunderstorms, 5,000 floods,
It was humbling to sit on the Town Common on June 17 and listen to stories of pain and frustration presented by people whose lives have been impacted in negative ways over the years by the Brattleboro Police Department. But it was equally humbling to realize how little I (and perhaps others) know about the people who now work in that department. I've met Chief Mike Fitzgerald once or twice. But I didn't know until recently that he grew up...
The Vermont Jazz Center's final concert of the 2012-13 season is Eugene Uman's Convergence Project, set for Saturday, June 8, at 8 p.m. The music, composed and performed by VJC artistic director Eugene Uman, who also is pianist and leader of the Convergence Project, is innovative, exploratory, understandable, and fun. According to Uman, what keeps the project unified is the integrity of the compositions, the shared vision of the group's members, and a careful balance of jazz harmonies with Colombian...
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