RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
VERNON-Liberal, progressive, conservative, orthodox, right wing, left wing - descriptive words that we use to...
SAXTONS RIVER-On Tuesday, Nov. 5, I will be voting for Leslie Goldman and Michelle Bos-Lun...
BRATTLEBORO-Dear Brattleboro Voter, You will be receiving an absentee ballot in the mail for the...
BRATTLEBORO-We were thrilled to discover Mollie Burke would be our representative to the State Legislature...
The Brattleboro Retreat laid off 85 workers on Oct. 23 as part of a decision to cut five outpatient programs. The Retreat cut $8 million from the annual budget in order to move the state's largest mental health facility toward financial sustainability, according to a letter to staff from CEO Louis Josephson. At the end of the year, the private psychiatric facility will close five programs: a Hub program that provides medication assisted therapy for opioid addiction, an outpatient addiction...
Creating over-simplistic, false historical comparisons doesn't help anyone. While I agree that the GOP presidential candidate is anything but civil, to claim the internet has ushered in a new era of people being rude, is super convenient and propping up a version of the past that is not there. Was it civil for Representative Duke Cunningham on May 11, 1995 on the floor of the House to call gay and lesbian folks serving as “homos in the military?” Or when...
Bluesman Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton will appear at Next Stage on Friday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. Paxton is an American musician from Los Angeles who now lives in Queens, N.Y. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Paxton's style draws from blues and jazz music before World War II and was influenced by Fats Waller and “Blind” Lemon Jefferson. “Blind Boy Paxton is six-foot-two, but he only stands to get bigger,” The Village Voice wrote about Paxton, a young man who plays...
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