Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc.,
BRATTLEBORO-While it's encouraging that we're finally approaching a more inclusive way of recognizing the voices...
BRATTLEBORO-The results from the Charter Revision Committee's recent poll in Districts 7, 8, and 9...
Peter Adair is the author of the books Sacred Universe and Sacred Earth. WESTMINSTER WEST-Unlikely...
As members of the local business community munched their breakfast muffins and slurped coffee, a leading Vermont economist delivered his customary stomach-churning assessment of the Vermont economy. Arthur Woolf, an associate professor at the University of Vermont and a co-founder of Northern Economic Consulting, Inc., presented economic information familiar to many in the audience at a Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast event, the first of its 2013-14 season, at the Brattleboro Retreat on Oct. 22. Woolf, who served as...
I heartily endorse Nancy Braus's applause for the Republican Congress that passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to our Constitution, that abolished slavery, enshrined equal protection of the law, and protected voting rights for all Americans. I also agree with her powerful condemnation of the Democratic white supremacists who aggressively undermined the promise of two of those amendments in the post–Civil War South. I share her concern about a possible “fascist takeover,” especially of our economy. I learned in...
Artist Bobby DiTrani opens his second solo show at Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main St., on Friday, July 7, during Gallery Walk. According to the gallery, DiTrani's “masterly oil paintings evoke an atmosphere balanced precariously between serene beauty and cataclysmic chaos.” DiTrani is presenting new and past works the gallery says “combine his skill and talent with figures and faces, smokey forests and far away mountains, and how they might shine in a sunset or the glow of a...
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