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 Retreat's “Tyler 3” unit offers Vermont's only inpatient mental-health beds for adolescents. In many ways, it's considered “our most challenging unit,” says Retreat President and CEO Louis Josephson. And efforts to find funding for physical upgrades have thus far been unsuccessful. Nevertheless, Retreat administrators say they're making some big improvements on Tyler 3 - and elsewhere on the sprawling campus - by implementing two new programs that change how patients are treated for mental-health and substance-abuse problems. The...
Cinderella bored the hell out of me. Sleeping Beauty, too. My mother recalled that I didn't ask to hear those stories. I wasn't interested in seeing them animated on the big screen either. “Those stories aren't real,” I said. Although I don't remember saying that, my opinion hasn't changed. I thought of this story a couple of weeks ago, when I heard Peggy Orenstein on NPR discussing her new book Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of...
Michel Tremblay's Albertine in Five Times will have two staged reading performances at the Actors Theatre Playhouse on Saturdays August 8 and 15 at 7:30 p.m. Staged readings enable actors to sit with script in hand for a fully realized and rehearsed performance - minus the scenery and the staging. Michel Tremblay's well-loved and award-winning play Albertine in Five Times presents the story of one woman, Albertine, played simultaneously by five actresses at five different times in her life. Each...
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