BRATTLEBORO — We were lucky to have Paul Cameron around as long as we did.
Enjoy North Carolina, Paul! We'll miss your dedication and kindness!
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...
BRATTLEBORO-Recently, two storms in the span of three weeks brought torrential rains and flash flooding to Vermont that made it seem as if the Northeast Kingdom were washing away down to Brattleboro. Climate change is real, and it's happening in Vermont. Who is responsible, and who will pay to repair the damage? "The Legislature has given us the authority to basically present a bill to those fossil fuel companies that are determined to have fueled the climate crisis," State Treasurer...
In his poem “To Elsie,” William Carlos Williams wrote, “The pure products of America/go crazy.” I have thought of that poem a lot lately. Our national unreality over the past several years escalated to a fever pitch between the November election and the most recent impeachment routine, with a hefty dose of an insurrection thrown in on Jan. 6 just to make everything as real as it could possibly be. Nothing that has happened since then has changed that reality...
For young, aspiring professional musicians, the opportunity to participate in Marlboro Music, the Vermont summer community The New Yorker called “the music world's most coveted retreat,” is a dream come true. Rather than being coached by the likes of Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida and members of some of the world's leading string quartets, they actually get to play alongside them (a concept initiated at Marlboro), exploring works in a depth not possible elsewhere. That's why these exceptional young artists often,
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