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Voices

Mystery solved!

By
Douglas Gordon
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 — Issue 182

BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:

A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.

Voices

To recruit young workers, businesses need to show up and reach out

By
Dylan Stewart

BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...

Birthday parade, or Medicaid?

By
Jane Olmstead

NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...

'A deeply flawed system'

By
Timothy Belknap

Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...

How do we give due process its due?

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

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News

Brattleboro couple honored for decades of service

By
Fran Lynggaard Hansen
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 — Issue 648

With the frosty sound of snow beneath feet in 18 degrees of Vermont cold, three state representatives from Brattleboro met on the steps of the State House last Wednesday to honor John and Mary Carnahan for 64 years of service to community. John Carnahan, 93, arrived in town in 1957 as a Harvard educated lawyer, joining the Fitts and Olson Law Office. From 1958 to 1961, Carnahan served as a staffer for William Meyer, who served in Congress for one...

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Voices

Health care letter misses the mark on all counts

By
Hilary F. Cooke
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 — Issue 186

There are reasons to support efforts in health-care reform. Unfortunately, a letter by David Schoales [“Health insurance doesn't work as a free-market product,” Jan. 9] misses the mark on all accounts. This letter is an example of agenda trumping reality. Here are a few examples: • An assertion that “insurance companies are raising our premiums because they can't make money on their investments” ignores the fact that rates in Vermont are carefully approved by state regulators, for whom investment income...

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Arts

‘Br’er Rabbit’ comes to Sandglass Theater

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 — Issue 195

Magical Moonshine Theatre of Napa Valley, Calif., will perform “Tales of Br'er Rabbit” at Sandglass Theater in Putney on Saturday, March 23, as part of the 2013 Winter Sunshine Series of Family Performances. The tales of Br'er Rabbit and his cohorts come to us from Africa and are now some of the most beloved stories in America. Br'er Rabbit may be smaller than Br'er Fox or Br'er Bear, but he was blessed with a good dose of wits. In this...

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