RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
The writer is a Town Meeting member representing District 8. BRATTLEBORO-As part of Brattleboro's FY26...
State and local officials are scrambling to help the 91 employees of Vermont Bread Company who suddenly lost their jobs when its owner, Burlington's Koffee Kup Bakery, shut down operations on April 26. In the aftermath of the closing, one former employee, Matthew Chaney of Brattleboro, is the first plaintiff in a class action suit that alleges the abrupt shutdown was a violation of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The closure came after a majority of...
Three years ago, while I was sunk in post-election demoralization, my friend, lawyer Diane Shamas, described being a guardian ad litem, or GAL. Listening, I realized that this challenging, essential work might actually give me heart. Here were children in state custody because their parents were unable to provide safe homes, sometimes owing to opiate and other addictions, to homelessness, to poverty, to mental illness or domestic violence A guardian ad litem is sometimes known as a CASA, a court-appointed...
The Vermont Symphony's “Made in Vermont” chamber orchestra's statewide tour continues Friday, Sept. 27, with a 7:30 p.m. concert at the Brattleboro Music Center. The visit is especially meaningful to the BMC because of Vermont Symphony Orchestra Conductor Jaime Laredo's role, with his wife, Sharon Robinson as the BMC Artistic Advisers. The program features Ifetayo Ali-Landing, a teenage cellist from the Sphinx Program, playing Haydn's famous C Major Concerto. Ali-Landing began her musical studies on the violin and switched to...
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