BRATTLEBORO — A ban on sale of assault weapons would be good.
A ban on sale of votes by Congress would be better.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
It's been said often in the past few years: Vermont is growing older, and young people are fleeing the state in search of better opportunities elsewhere. What usually doesn't get mentioned by the demographic doom-and-gloomers is this fact from the 2010 U.S. Census: the percentage of Vermont's population that is non-Hispanic white has dropped to 94.3 percent, the African-American population here has doubled since 2000, and residents in both these groups are younger than their white counterparts. While Maine has...
We campaign in poetry but govern in prose, said former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo during his career. As we worked through the issues of the 2013 legislative session, the verse of the campaign morphed into the detailed prose of bill drafting and creation of budget spreadsheets. The good news is that Vermont is doing well, especially compared to other states - enjoying low unemployment, a forward-moving economy, and the solid foundation of a balanced budget. Within all that, a...
Brattleboro will once again be host to one of the longest on-going Dawn Dances in the country, held twice a year on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends for up to 400 dancers at the Gibson-Aiken Center, 207 Main St. Featuring three callers and three bands for the contra dance portion, which runs from 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 24, until 7 a.m., on Monday, May 25, this dance draws people of all ages from Maine to California, northern Vermont...
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