Powerful. Thank you for all the energy you expended to craft this article. Well done.
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
Since the fire that destroyed McNeill's Brewery and took Ray McNeill's life, scores of people who knew the man, his pub, and his product have stopped to talk about him and remember. An award-winning brewer, McNeill was dubbed “the Bohemian Brewer of Brattleboro” in Microbrews magazine, where the author wrote, “His brews are not quite heavenly, but close enough to it that you might hear a harp playing in the background when you sip one of his brews.” But this...
This op-ed poses a question that seems logical on its face - until one does a bit of research. The “compelling state interest” test has been a part of Supreme Court case law since 1963 (Sherbert v. Verner) and 1972 (Wisconsin v. Yoder), where religious freedom was upheld in the absence of compelling state interest. The Supreme Court incorporated this test in the Roe v. Wade decision: “Where certain 'fundamental rights' are involved, the Court has held that regulation limiting...
The title of Mildred Beltré Martinez's Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) exhibit, “Between Starshine and Clay,” is drawn from a poem by Lucille Clifton: “born in babylon / both nonwhite and woman / what did i see to be except myself? / i made it up / here on this bridge between / starshine and clay.” Like the poem, the exhibition on view through June 12 explores issues of identity. “Clifton is celebrating that for Black women, the formation...
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