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...
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MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
Hello and good day to you, residents of lovely Windham County! Well, last Friday's forecast was a total bust. Our storm formed too far west to produce any real weather in southern Vermont. In addition, we became much warmer than originally thought. Such is life in the weather department. A few variables change by 50 miles, and those changes amplify and cascade downstream over our region when we're three days out. As for this coming week, it looks like we...
To me, one of last year's more interesting news stories was about urine in a library. For those who don't remember, in November, the Lamont Library at Harvard revealed that 36 books on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered issues (usually abbreviated as LGBT) were damaged by “what appeared to be urine,” according to The Harvard Crimson. The predictable national uproar that followed - in newspapers, on talk shows, and all over the Internet - was over hate and hate crimes.
The Windham Orchestra will collaborate with Michael Finckel and Bennington's Sage City Symphony to present two concerts around the theme “People who Change Our Lives." Performances are Saturday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m., at Shaftsbury Elementary School, and Sunday, Nov. 13, at 3 p.m., at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro. First, Philip Bloch's “For Nick and Alex” speaks of the deaths of two people adored locally, Alex Firth and Nick Widomski, with the music reflecting “loss, the horror of circumstance,
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