BRATTLEBORO — It sounds to me like Patrick Leahy doesn't want to be a senator from Vermont anymore.
BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,
BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,
Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...
Whether it's morning, noon, or night when you read these words, I hope you're having a good moment or two. Sometimes that's all we need to make a good day for ourselves. As far as the weather is concerned, we've got no shortage of sunshine on the way to southern Vermont. We've also got a couple of showery periods possible, and at least another frosty morning on the way for early this weekend. For Wednesday, high pressure that built in...
We have read with great concern and consternation Rebecca Holcombe's memorandum on “Student Voice and Civil Debate,” addressed to superintendents, principals, independent school headmasters, and all educators in Vermont. In this memo, the secretary of education urges the aforementioned parties to foster students' ability to use their voices to advocate for change, yet suggests that students not participate in the walkouts planned at many schools, but rather share a 17-minute period of silence in the auditorium. (The irony of asking...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present a free talk by sculptor William Ransom on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live. Ransom will discuss the BMAC exhibit “Keep Up/Hold Up.” In a statement accompanying the exhibit, the artist explains the origins of the title. “I am measured first by my blackness,” Ransom writes. “Our national story predetermines through the weight of white supremacy and its deliberately established structures how my very existence is...
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