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...
In a town hit hard by the shutdown of Vermont Yankee, officials say a natural-gas plant - with development costs estimated at $750 million - may be in the works. The optimism in Vernon is carefully qualified, however. For one thing, the plant is far from a sure bet, and it's not yet been disclosed which sites are under consideration. Also, there have been a few recent hints of opposition from the general public, though the town government has been...
The point MacLean Gander makes in “A national dislocation from reality” [Column, March 3] of the importance of how a problem gets defined, who gets to define it, and who then reports on it (hopefully) using “the basic principles of accuracy, fairness, and objectivity” which he also acknowledges as being “shaped in powerful ways by the prevailing culture” seemed more than a little relevant and timely to me. Recently, I remarked that it seems there is no dialogue any more,
In the classic storytelling tradition of Gould & Stearns - clever, zany, with reckless abandon, quick, literary, heartfelt, and chaotic, but controlled - New England Youth Theatre presents Robin Hood, adapted and directed by Peter Gould, from Feb. 24 through March 4. Gould is approaching this adaptation in an open and collaborative way with all of the young, creative minds of the cast. He has created chapters of the story, a plan, key words and key lines, and he is...
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