BRATTLEBORO — My concern about the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee is that we focus too much on ideologues without adequate focus on workers.
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
Before there was Facebook, before The Commons, there was iBrattleboro, the online community-news website that went live on Feb. 20, 2003. And, unlike most sites launched 15 years ago, ibrattleboro.com still exists and continues to draw contributors and readers. By the end of March, the site will receive a major upgrade. “We have over 4,000 registered user accounts,” said Lise LePage, who owns and moderates iBrattleboro with her partner, Christopher Grotke. When the couple moved to Brattleboro in 2001, “there...
As voting rights are under attack nationally, Brattleboro residents voted in 2019 to go a different path and expand the right to vote in local elections to 16- and 17-year-olds. On Feb. 11, however, Gov. Phil Scott signaled he would veto this change to the town's charter. Gov. Scott has hidden behind cries for “local control” in burdening local school officials with mask policy-setting and blowback. But when it comes to expanding voting rights, apparently he has no respect for...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present roots and folk/rock quintet Session Americana with Eleanor Buckland, plus singer-songwriter Sam Robbins at Next Stage on Saturday, April 20, at 7:30 pm. Session Americana has been described as "a rock band in a tea cup, or possibly a folk band in a whiskey bottle." According to the news release, "The Boston-based band/collective of musician's musicians craft a musical experience unlike any other. On stage is a collapsible bar table wired with microphones,
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