WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,
BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,
Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...
In early 2015, it looked like longtime Brattleboro manufacturer G.S. Precision Inc. was set to leave Vermont. But a team of local, state, and federal officials crafted an elaborate financing package to prevent that from happening. Not only did G.S. Precision stay, but the company has just put the finishing touches on a $17 million expansion. On Oct. 12, officials and G.S. Precision executives gathered to celebrate that expansion and its substantial economic impacts: There were more than 300 jobs...
Vermont is known as a progressive safe haven. However, some of our citizens struggle to connect personal experience to this sentiment. The purpose of publicizing these feelings is not to throw shade at the national progressive movement that Senator Bernie Sanders is trying to foster, but to point out that Vermonters in marginalized positions - be they poor, disabled, LGBTQ, people of color, indigenous, immigrant, or non-mainstream in other facets of identity - help to create this state and make...
Folk musician Tim Eriksen and The Trio de Pumpkintown return to Sandglass Theater on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Pumpkintown is an evening of old and new Yankee hymns, tunes, and ballads from the region's often-forgotten multi-cultural history, and stories - all accompanied by original and historical magic lantern projections. Audiences are asked to abandon any need to separate fact from fiction when considering the colorful history of the imaginary New England village of Pumpkintown. The Trio de Pumkintown...
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