RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:
A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.
BRATTLEBORO-It was no April Fool's Day Joke. On April 1, five Administration for Children regional...
Moss Kahler has served as recycling coordinator in Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-The Selectboard members are facing difficult...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-At no other time since its inception in 1970 has preserving what remains of...
BRATTLEBORO-May the 4th: Be with us! Edible Brattleboro is rallying the community to kick off...
In many town and villages around Vermont, getting people to run for public office has become a struggle. Not so in Bellows Falls. With three seats up for grabs on the Village Trustees - two two-year seats and a one-year president's seat - seven residents have thrown their hats in the ring, and only two are incumbents. Village President Roger Riccio decided not to run for reelection. Andrew Smith will be completing his first stint as a village trustee and...
Leading up to Brattleboro's March 20–21 Annual Representative Town Meeting (ARTM), the one issue I was cogitating most extensively about was the relationship between the body's Human Services budget and the Community Safety Review Team's report (CSRTR). The intersection of these two topics, however, did not fit squarely into any article on the warning, and so it never actually came up. I would, however, like to raise this publicly now in the hopes that it will generate a useful exchange...
When the Vermont Theatre Company set out to stage John Patrick Shanley's 2004 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play Doubt: A Parable, director Hallie Flower says, she “resisted a little bit.” The play, set in a Catholic school in 1964, centers around a progressive parish priest and the school's principal, a mistrusting conservative nun. As the VTC describes the play, “Father Flynn is a popular and progressive young priest who has come under the watchful eye of Principal Sister Aloysius. A vague incident with...
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