DUMMERSTON — It's sad when you're a devoted employee for decades and when you leave it's no big thing to an employer.
People wonder why no one wants to work at one place for long.
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
The Vermont Legislature has approved a two-year extension of COVID-19-era options for how and when the state’s 247 cities and towns decide upon local leaders, spending, and special articles. Bill H.42 mirrors legislation passed in 2021 and 2022 that allowed municipalities to make short-term, pandemic-safe changes to Town Meeting — traditionally held on or around the first Tuesday in March — and gather governing boards solely online. “With the rising cases of Covid variants, there’s a real question in a...
Lindsey Britt is a textile artist, solution-finder, award-winning vegan baker, and nonprofit administrator who serves on the Brattleboro Planning Commission and is a member of Compassionate Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-It's a run-of-the-mill gray top that I've had for so long I no longer remember where it came from. I wore it a lot over the years, so it got permanently discolored around the cuffs. For some reason my husband really likes it, so I've held onto it even though I've felt a...
“God of Carnage,” a comedy by French playwright Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton, will be produced by Vermont Theatre Company on Nov. 7-9 and 13-16 in Dummerston's Evening Star Grange. This Tony Award-winning play and Roman Polanski-directed film questions the concept of civility in “Cobblestone,” Brooklyn: Two sets of parents sit down to discuss their sons' playground fight, and what begins as a polite conversation devolves into a childish squabble accompanied by hilarious tantrums where adults reveal their...
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