BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
The state Public Service Board (PSB) has issued a Certificate of Public Good for three meteorological test towers (METs) on 5,000 acres straddling a hilltop between Grafton and Windham. The board handed down this decision despite opposition from the town of Windham and other organizations, paving the way for the towers to be built by the end of January. The Dec. 20 ruling approved a “246 permit” - named for the section of state law that governs meteorological towers and...
The Commons' recent report about AT&T's efforts to woo the good people of Putney was especially revealing by the AT&T representative's caveat that “the town's permission for the application and its protest, if any is lodged would have little apparent weight in the state's decision.” As Newfane learned, regardless of what the public might want, AT&T will trust its union-busting, anti-democratic law firm, Downs Rachlin Martin, to do the legwork to ensure that the Public Service Board grants permission without...
When the call came out last fall from the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center to create an “Artful Ice Shanty,” a group of nine Brattleboro-West Arts members got inspired. Their shanty would be a part of the village that would be on view at the Retreat Farm across Route 30 from the Retreat Meadows, a popular spot for ice fishing and actual functioning ice shanties. “A full-on winter festival celebrating art, culture, and the great outdoors, coinciding with the 100th...
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