BRATTLEBORO — It's a sad day when a writer loses a job. I hope Pat Smith and Mike Fahar find meaningful work that will continue to contribute to their community.
BRATTLEBORO-It was no April Fool's Day Joke. On April 1, five Administration for Children regional...
Moss Kahler has served as recycling coordinator in Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-The Selectboard members are facing difficult...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-At no other time since its inception in 1970 has preserving what remains of...
BRATTLEBORO-May the 4th: Be with us! Edible Brattleboro is rallying the community to kick off...
Do you have Monday, April 8, circled in red on your calendar? Just in case you are someone who isn't excited about the upcoming total solar eclipse, I want to make sure you know why you should be. If you have seen lunar eclipses and partial solar eclipses, you might think April 8 will be similar. Consider this: the sun is so bright that even a 90% eclipse could go unnoticed if you weren't watching for it. That is not...
Nicole Awwad, in her Viewpoint, calls for peace and justice, and who can fault such lofty aspirations? Thankfully, we here can exercise those beliefs at the ballot box - unlike her father, who could not when he left Lebanon those so many years ago. Did Ms. Awwad learn that the ballot box is a phantom when she returned to Lebanon three years ago? She says she now knows that country's history and still asks, “I began to wonder: Where would...
BRATTLEBORO-Hadestown: Teen Edition by Anaïs Mitchell, is the Brattleboro Union High School musical, presented Feb. 13–15. The production is an adaptation of Greek myth. It tells the story of Eurydice, a poor girl who wants something more from life but doesn't quite know how to get it, and a boy, Orpheus, who is trying to finish a song that he believes will change the world for the better. These two wanderers, destined to meet, experience both love and loss. The...
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