BRATTLEBORO — Integrity is a rare word these days. Susan Keese had it!
Charles F. Monette is a poet, teacher, playwright, artist, actor, builder, and U.S. Army veteran.
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some...
Fric Spruyt represents District 9 in Brattleboro's Representative Town Meeting. BRATTLEBORO-At the July 8 Brattleboro...
Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and the author of Becoming a Leader: Identity, Influence,
Vermont Yankee owner Entergy Nuclear won permission from the state on June 17 to build a second pad on which to store concrete-encased radioactive nuclear waste at the closed plant. The Public Service Board (PSB) allowed the second pad on the grounds that it will have “no undue adverse effects on the environment” and will promote the state's general good by hastening the transfer of spent nuclear fuel from the pools in which it now sits. Entergy expects to keep...
I feel compelled to respond to Jim Freedman's confusion and distress in his Viewpoint, which I share. I believe that Donald Trump is a sociopath and is bent on destroying a political system that we call democracy, with the collusion of a sycophant Congress. I also believe that Donald Trump supports white supremacy, a cultural belief that tolerates if not mandates the disenfranchisement, subjugation, terrorizing and lynching of any persons not “white.” My sibling is a Trump supporter. It confounds...
New England Youth Theatre will present the groundbreaking play The Laramie Project, by Moisés Kaufman, directed by Hallie Flower, at 100 Flat St. on April 6 and 13 at 7 p.m., April 7 and 14 at 2 and 7 p.m., April 8 and 15 at 2 p.m., and April 13 at 7 p.m. In October 1998, Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left to die, tied to a fence on the outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming. Five weeks later, Moisés...
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