BRATTLEBORO — I agree the wording on the ballot seemed biased.
The issue is the amendments were poor options for the most part, regardless of how they were presented.
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
The writer is a Town Meeting member representing District 8. BRATTLEBORO-As part of Brattleboro's FY26...
Health care regulators have told municipal officials here that a pending $1.37 million fire department takeover of emergency medical services may require state review and approval. The Brattleboro Selectboard voted unanimously last fall for the town to drop its nearly 60-year contract with the private nonprofit Rescue Inc. - Windham County's largest and longest-serving EMS provider - and instead buy and operate its own ambulances starting July 1. At the time, local leaders said the selectboard vote was the last...
In 1958, when I moved from Boston to Bellows Falls, Vermont was something of an economic and political backwater. The economy was stagnant, and political loyalties were virtually unchanged since the Civil War. More people moved out than moved in. Not until 1963 did the human population exceed the bovine. But construction on the Interstate highway began in 1957, and many visitors followed the freeway north to the ski resorts, lakes and woodlands of “Vermont: The Beckoning Country,” so styled...
As part of its Spotlight film series, Latchis Arts and the Windham World Affairs Council present Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, a documentary that celebrates the life of the first African woman and environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The screening, a benefit for the Wangari Maathai Foundation, takes place on Thursday, Aug. 5, at 7 p.m., at the Latchis Theatre. Local Windham County filmmakers Lisa Merton and Alan Dater, through TV footage and chilling first person...
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