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Music center leader to leave for job in Virginia

Richard Riley raised funds for BMC’s new building
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Joyce Marcel
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 — Issue 62
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Brattleboro wants to reopen talks and preserve two bridges

By
Virginia Ray

BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members heard from the Hinsdale, New Hampshire, town administrator that that town's Selectboard would...

Brattleboro moves forward with police space in parking garage

By
Virginia Ray

BRATTLEBORO-Plans to create a downtown restroom/police sub-station in the town-owned Brattleboro Transportation Center on Flat...

For the love of trees

By
Robert F. Smith

SAXTONS RIVER-Ethan Tapper grew up here. On Friday, July 25, the forester, best-selling author, and...

Legislative session marked by compromise, shifting priorities

By
Joyce Marcel

Much has been written about the effort expended on changing the way Vermont's education is...

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Connecting patients with community — and having fun

By
Fran Lynggaard Hansen
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 — Issue 676

“There have been so many changes in the ways in which we treat our mentally ill and our elderly in our society,” says Sandy Ware, who has witnessed those changes locally firsthand over a long career of helping others, mainly at the Brattleboro Retreat and its former nursing home for resident patients, Linden Lodge. At just 14 years old, Ware was hired by longtime Recreational Director Frank Dearborn to assist in running one of the playground programs for the recreation...

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Voices

The courts, not the state, overstepped their bounds in Entergy case

By
Nancy Braus
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 — Issue 218

I am one of the many Vermonters who is angry and saddened, but not surprised, by the will of the federal courts to twist the law in favor of corporate interests. Entergy's win in its immoral lawsuit against the state of Vermont is an example of right-wing judges asserting corporate control over our state. The basis of both the initial ruling by Judge J. Garvan Murtha, and the appeal court's backing of that ruling [News, Aug. 21], is not that...

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Arts

Want to be in Archer Mayor’s next book?

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 — Issue 392

When a Leland & Gray sophomore and student traveler Aiden McCormack asked his neighbor Archer Mayor for a signed copy of his latest novel as a raffle prize, Mayor went one step further. “Would you like to raffle off being a character in my next novel?” Mayor asked. McCormack brought back the offer to his Spanish teacher and trip leader, Jeryl Julian-Cissé, and the response was, “Si, muchas gracias!” Mayor's series of crime novels has received much critical acclaim over...

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