BRATTLEBORO — Mindy Haskins Rogers' piece is impeccable journalism, brilliantly written.
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,
Last week, Gov. Phil Scott, in conjunction with The Hartford, a Connecticut insurance firm, announced a new paid family leave program that extends to the private sector a program already in place for state employees. Meanwhile, the Senate is working on its own paid family leave bill, one that originated there and was written by Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, D-Brattleboro. That bill has already passed out of the House. The difference between the governor's plan and the Senate's is who will...
Article 14 on the 2022 Putney ballot asks voters to vote yea or nay on taxing solar farm output. The Town Energy Committee has suggested voting no, after full consideration of the wording of the proposal on the ballot (which had already gone to press) - the reason being that the tax is contrary to the Town's support of alternative energy. There are several community solar farms in Putney, and, with the state already taxing them, the local panel owners...
At sundown on Friday, June 25, the arts organization Epsilon Spires will turn the parking lot of the historic First Baptist Church into an open-air movie theater for the fourth installment of the Backlot Cinema Series. Audience members are encouraged to bring blankets, pillows, and chairs to make themselves comfortable for the screening of Downtown 81, a day-in-the-life film following a young artist in New York City, played by a teenaged Jean-Michel Basquiat. The footage for Downtown 81 was shot...
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