BRATTLEBORO — It sounds to me like Patrick Leahy doesn't want to be a senator from Vermont anymore.
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...
On the first Sunday in May, Circle Mountain Farm on Lee Road will host Earth Gay, an event where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) volunteers “will get dirty and have fun planting organic potatoes,” according the event's press release. Earth Gay - an event celebrating the intersection of Queer activism and Earth-based consciousness - is a collaboration between the farm, Brattleboro's Green Mountain Crossroads (GMC), and Seattle's OUT For Sustainability (OUT4S). GMC Executive Director HB Lozito, met Gerod...
I am often not surprised when left-leaning journalists such as MacLean Gander, a frequent contributor to these pages, often defines and separates the good people of our country by pointing out this person as “white male” or that person as “cisgender,” or another person as “LGBTQ.” I feel that these words are being used by many people like him to divide us into subgroups to cause conflicts and hatred. This was my feeling particularly when reading his 1,350–word essay on...
Biographer Willard Sterne Randall will share the story of a deadly 1804 duel between two of America's Founding Fathers in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on May 6 at 7 p.m. His talk, “The Duel: Aaron Burr vs. Alexander Hamilton,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. Was it murder or suicide when the vice president of the United States killed the first secretary of...
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