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Voices

Share the road with bicyclists

By
Alice Charkes
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 — Issue 321

BRATTLEBORO — Have you noticed these signs around town lately?

They have been distributed through the Safe Streets Project, a town committee whose mission is to create a culture of respect and increase civility and safety on our streets for everyone through awareness and education activities.

Remember that cyclists only travel around 10 mph and they, like you, have a destination.

Give respect, get respect. Safety is a two-way street.

Voices

Not looking away

By
Amy-Louise Pfeffer

BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,

With 14% tax increase, what happens to those struggling economically?

By
Lynne Kennedy

BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,

Let’s make our future as bright as the past we remember

By
Shelby Brimmer

Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...

Not furious, but thankful, for end of Roe v. Wade

By
Danielle Miller

DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...

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Special Christmas Breakfast to honor memory of fire victim

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 — Issue 743

Organizers are accepting reservations for a Special Christmas Breakfast fundraiser to honor the memory of Deirdre Baker, a local cancer survivor and community volunteer who recently died in a fire. The Dec. 25 event at the Marina Restaurant will feature 100-person seatings at 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. for those who call 802-257-7563 no later than Wednesday, Dec. 20. Baker's friends are set to offer a by-donation buffet of scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausage, biscuits, gravy, fruit, coffee, tea, and juice.

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Voices

Why now for voter-approved funding for the arts?

By
Arlene Distler
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 — Issue 500

As a town resident with a long involvement in the arts, one of the founders of a literary arts nonprofit (Write Action), and an arts advocate through both writing journalism and serving on boards of a number of arts organizations, I am writing about the effort of a growing number of artists and appreciators of art - and just plain citizens - to support the creation of an arts fund for the town. It is something that is long overdue.

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Arts

Seeing the forest, and the trees, and the people who make their living from them

By
Joyce Marcel
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 — Issue 325

The Windham Regional Commission (WRC) has collaborated with Vermont landscape painter Kathleen Kolb and Vermont poet and performer Verandah Porche to create a singularly beautiful 17-picture and poetry exhibit about the working forest for the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (BMAC). The exhibit, called Shedding Light on the Working Forest, is opening at the museum on Oct. 2 and will run until Jan. 3, 2016. It combines Kolb's paintings of men working in the forests and in the mills with...

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