BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
State and federal officials have sharpened their pencils, and the tallies for the scale and cost of the damage from Tropical Storm Irene are starting to come in. The damage to state highways and bridges will be in the hundreds of millions, according to a Vermont Agency of Transportation official. Approximately 700 residential structures were severely damaged or destroyed, according to preliminary estimates from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A total of 423 owner-occupied dwellings were significantly damaged, said...
Talk about laboring in obscurity! Last week, I found myself discussing a $3.4 million gift that Brattleboro had received. When should we spend it? What should we spend it on? And who should decide? That's when we got hung up for a good 20 minutes on the finer points of jurisdiction within the town government. Also, the finer points of pickleball. Nope, it doesn't get wonkier or weirder than the meetings of the Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee. I often...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of traditional and contemporary Celtic and fiddle music by the band Kalos and duo O'Brien & Flick on Friday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Three innovative interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music - Eric McDonald (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Ryan McKasson (fiddle, viola, vocals), and Jeremiah McLane (accordion, piano, vocals) - draw on years of experience performing with the likes of Cantrip, Nightingale, The Clayfoot Strutters, and Alasdair Fraser &
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