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Voices

Love for tea

By
Diane Shamas
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 — Issue 322

BRATTLEBORO — The Twilight Tea Lounge has been a great spot! Anneka Kindler upgraded the ambience and expanded the menu.

When out-of-towners visited I would take them there. I'm sorry to see it go!

Voices

An epidemic remembered, a community mourned

By
Michael Gigante, Ph.D.

Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...

To recruit young workers, businesses need to show up and reach out

By
Dylan Stewart

BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...

Birthday parade, or Medicaid?

By
Jane Olmstead

NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...

'A deeply flawed system'

By
Timothy Belknap

Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...

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News

Putney General Store welcomes new owners

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 — Issue 526

A couple who are no strangers to the lifestyle of small-town merchandising and building community will purchase the Putney General Store on Sept. 4 and plan to begin working the next day. “We expect to achieve great things for the general store, for the town of Putney, the surrounding area and for the community at large,” said Kim Cosco, who has owned and run a general store in the Boston area for eight years with her husband, Mike. “When we...

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Voices

Measuring civility, past and present

By
Tim Kipp
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 — Issue 811

BRATTLEBORO-Recently, The New York Times reported the Trump regime plans to cut legal-aid funds for migrant children. Under this policy, 25,000 unaccompanied children will lose their legal representation that is provided by volunteer U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy groups. These children, as young as 2 years old, have escaped trafficking, trauma, and abuse and could be forcibly repatriated to further harm. This appears to be an open violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. In 1864, the U.S. Cavalry, led by...

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Arts

Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas bring their strings to Next Stage

Wednesday, April 10, 2019 — Issue 505

Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of cutting edge fiddle and cello explorations of Scottish, Celtic and global music by Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas at Next Stage on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. With a shared passion for improvising on the melody and the groove of traditional tunes, Alasdair and Natalie feature dazzling teamwork, swapping melodic and harmonic lines and trading driving rhythmic riffs. The 16-year musical partnership between Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas...

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