BRATTLEBORO — Nicole Plympton was my daughter's teacher last year, and she was so loved and respected! I am thrilled that she is getting this recognition. Congratulations!
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
The writer is a Town Meeting member representing District 8. BRATTLEBORO-As part of Brattleboro's FY26...
Leland & Gray Union Middle/High School students and parents are poised to begin a five-phase program that will not only underscore the benefits of intentional, substance-free living, but also earn each participating student a free, unrestricted pass to ski or snowboard at Stratton Mountain this winter. The event on Thursday, Sept. 15 features Boston-area speaker Joel Stanton, a former corporate consultant, who'll engage with the school community as a required first step toward the free pass. The core of his...
In all the talk about encroaching autocracy in the United States and elsewhere, politicians, pundits, media personalities, and others need to remember the words and wisdom of the revolutionary second first lady, Abigail Adams, who admonished her husband to “remember the ladies.” Another first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, echoed her predecessor in a recent CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour when she called out the absence of misogyny in various analyses of forces at work when countries descend into autocracies and...
Elizabeth Rogers, singer-songwriter, was born and raised in New York City. She started singing at the age of nine with the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera companies. She has toured internationally as a classical and jazz singer. In 2000, she moved to the north of Scotland, where she concentrated her efforts as a folk-singer/songwriter. She currently lives in Vermont and will be performing a “Stone Church by Candlelight” concert at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 6, at Immanuel...
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