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Voices

Ms. P. inspired son

By
Donald Stolpp
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 — Issue 376

NEWFANE — My son had Nicole Plympton last year, and he absolutely loved her.

He has had troubles with focus while in school, and she connected with him and made him enjoy education.

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

Windham Democrats back pot bill

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 — Issue 350

While the fate of a marijuana-legalization bill remains unclear in the Statehouse, Windham County’s Democratic leaders have left no doubt about where they stand. The county committee has voted to support legalization and also to join the Vermont Coalition to Regulate Marijuana as the second Democratic committee in the state to join its ranks. County committee Chairman Brandon Batham said he pushed for a vote on marijuana legalization because “on issues like this, Windham County Democrats can’t afford to shy...

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Voices

On another shooting

By
Jessica Weitz
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 — Issue 428

One of the first things I do to wake up my daughter on a school morning is to turn on her radio. She likes to listen to Keene's pop station with a really funny morning duo. The first words I heard on this first Monday in October were, “There has been another mass shooting.” The first words out of my daughter's mouth as she rolled over in bed were, “Another shooting?” I sat on the edge of her bed and...

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Arts

Shoot The Moon returns to stage with ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 — Issue 686

Shoot the Moon Theater Company returns to their first live, in-person theater performances since 2020 with a production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for its 2022 annual Halloween Spectacular. Shows take place Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 21–22 and Oct. 28–29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery. Artistic Director Joshua Moyse says in a news release, “We stayed in contact through COVID-19, did some online readings, and did a digital Halloween show in...

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