ATHENS-Jeff Potter's column argues that because some United Nations officials and nongovernmental organizations argue Israel's...
BRATTLEBORO-Australian (secret) ballot is the only way all the registered voters of Brattleboro get to...
Tristan Roberts (tristan@tristanroberts.org) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
Daniel Quipp served on the Brattleboro Selectboard from 2019 to 2025. BRATTLEBORO-In the last month...
The Brattleboro Police Department is attempting to locate a missing girl. Police say she is Opal Robinson, 15, of Brattleboro, and that the last communication her family had with Robinson was on the afternoon of Oct. 16. In a Facebook post written on Oct. 20, her grandmother, Jeannie Ayer of St. Johnsbury, wrote there is evidence that Robinson is out of state. “I just want her to be safe,” Ayer wrote. Police say that anyone having any information on Robinson's...
On behalf of the trustees of Friends of Music at Guilford, I extend sincere thanks to everyone who attended and otherwise supported our 43rd annual Community Messiah Sing on Dec. 7, and our 41st Christmas at Christ Church concerts on Dec. 13 and 15, events that allow us to contribute to the support of three other local nonprofit organizations. Set at Centre Congregational Church since 1980, the Messiah Sing was rededicated in 2007 as a benefit for homeless people at...
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 183 Main St., presents “Emily Mason, Explorations,” a survey of Mason's prints from 1985 to 2016. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 11, from 5 to 7 p.m., followed by an artist talk with Mason on Sunday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m. This gallery-wide exhibition continues through Jan. 7. One of America's foremost nonrepresentational painters, Mason began exploring printmaking at the Tamarind Institute in 1985, and continued working with the Garner Tullis Workshop, Hand Graphics,
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