BRATTLEBORO — Congratulations to you all on a terrific issue. One hundred issues is great cause for celebration. Here's to the next 100!
The Northwest Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) is a coalition of 14 Quaker congregations in...
This letter was submitted on behalf of Spark faculty. PUTNEY-We, the faculty of the Spark...
Matt Dorsey serves on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He delivered this memoriam to...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and author. In recent days, since this piece was...
The late Robert Gannett was a rare breed - and not just because he was both a direct descendant of his hometown of Brattleboro's namesake, Revolutionary War figure William Brattle, as well as the husband of a granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. Gannett held one of his southeastern Vermont district's two Senate seats from 1973 to 1992 - the last Republican to do so. In the three decades since Gannett retired, only Democrats have represented Windham County in the state...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend, and completely enthused that she's running for a seat on the Putney Selectboard. When Bex joined the Garland School team in Brattleboro as our cook, it was clear right away that she was going to contribute more than just food to our community. I felt the same way in getting to know her personally, as a neighbor in Putney. This was a woman who had...
Confluence, a new gallery in the historic E.J. Bullock Building, will have its opening May 6 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Regular hours will be Saturday 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sunday noon to 4 p.m., and by appointment. The gallery's debut show will consist of work by five women photographers inspired by the beauty of their local environment: Sue Hartman, Jeanette Eckert, Stacy Birch, Nicki Steel, and Ann Floriani. Hartman, a 30-year resident of Readsboro, previously...
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