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It's nice to see the attention paid to the students and the respect to the teacher. We need more of this! Go Bernie!
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
One of the biggest decisions the Selectboard must make during Fiscal Year 2019 budget deliberations is whether the town should purchase a new aerial ladder truck for the Brattleboro Fire Department. Fire Chief Michael Bucossi and Assistant Fire Chief Leonard Howard III appeared at the Dec. 5 regular Selectboard meeting to offer details on what the new truck will cost and why they think it's necessary. But not all Board members were convinced the budget can support the purchase this...
I write to urge U.S. Representative Peter Welch to endorse Bernie Sanders for president. It is disturbing to me that Sen. Leahy and Gov. Shumlin have endorsed Hillary Clinton, the pro-war, pro-GMO, pro-1-percent candidate, against the candidate of the 99 percent. I am disturbed because of Clinton's obvious faithlessness; I hate to see them associated with it, and I would dislike even more to see Welch joining them. On militancy, Sanders has said: “Our response must begin with [...] the...
On Friday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., organist Alexander Meszler will use the historic Estey organ at Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St., to present Walls of Sound: The Ecology of the Borderlands, an original composition exploring the natural environment of the Sonoran Desert at the U.S.-Mexico border. Walls of Sound brings together collaborators from across disciplines including music, science, activism, and theater, and was funded in part by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York. Through Walls of Sound,
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