MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
The town budget for fiscal year 2015 will stand at $15.7 million after a petition drive to force another townwide vote failed to garner enough signatures. The Brattleboro Town Clerk's office reports that it did not receive enough signatures to launch a second budget referendum by deadline of June 19 at 5 p.m. Representative Town Meeting approved a $15.7 million municipal budget June 3. Voters had defeated a $16 million budget at Annual Representative Town Meeting April 17. Under the...
I'm frustrated with the so-called leadership of this country. The sound of President Biden's unity-themed inaugural address had barely faded when the democratically led Congress voted to impeach the former president for his incitement to riot on Jan. 6. Did he deserve it? Absolutely! Is he still in power? No. Does it say anywhere in the Constitution that the Congress needs to immediately send the article to the Senate for a trial? No. In case no one has noticed, there...
In-Sight Photography Project announces its first Youth Photo Contest & Fair. For 30 years, In-Sight Photography Project has been nurturing the creativity of young artists in the Brattleboro community and across the country. "Seeing an opportunity to give young artists an opportunity to have their work exhibited in the community and seen by professionals in the field, this year, instead of our Annual Benefit Art Auction, we made a choice to ask the community to support an event that will...
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