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Voices

They still sound great

By
Betsy Nichols
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 — Issue 294

Wonderful article - thanks. It prompted me to listen to Feathers tonight for the first time in a few years; the group still sounds great.

I'm going to look for Ruth Garbus's solo music online now!

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

Evacuation plans for the whole family

By
Wendy M. Levy
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 — Issue 331

“The key to having a public disaster team is: nobody ever has to decide whether to evacuate because they are worried about their animals,” said Carolyn Conrad, director of operations at the Windham County Humane Society (WCHS) and treasurer for the newly formed Windham Disaster Animal Response Team (WinDART). There has been no disaster animal response team in Windham County, she said. But that is about to change. WinDART has recent received its charter as a regional operating team of...

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Voices

Vermont must enshrine abortion access in law, state constitution

By
Madeleine Kunin
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 — Issue 514

The decision to have a safe and legal abortion is under threat. Recently, the state of Alabama ruled to outlaw almost all abortions - including in case of rape or incest. It is one of the chilling indicators of Roe v. Wade's fragility. The intent of the new law is to bring it all the way up to the Supreme Court in the hope that the newly conservative court will strike Roe v. Wade down. This ominous action makes it...

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Arts

An ‘intimate family perspective’ through a father’s lens

By
Arlene Distler
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 — Issue 448

Most likely, the name Zachary Stephens has a familiar ring if you've read the Brattleboro Reformer at all this past decade. Or if you were a student taking classes at the In-Sight Photography Project. Or if you knew someone who was. Stephens, the Reformer's principal photojournalist for several years, has served as program director at In-Sight over the past decade. Two years ago, he decided to get his master's degree. He pursued this goal while raising his family and still...

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