Truly unhinged: In the name of “the idea of coming together,” Randolph T. Holhut doubles down on division.
Everything despicable about the neoliberal “New Dems” emerges in this rant.
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
Making art can be a lonely business. So what do most artists want? As it turns out, it's a sense of community. That was the driving consensus of the 30 artists from Windham County in Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire who came together at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts at 183 Main St. on a wet Saturday morning to sample delicacies, learn about new opportunities to show their work, and to schmooze. Definitely, to schmooze. The Artist-to-Artist Field Trip was organized by...
The combination of mass shootings and the continual assaults on women's access to reproductive health care hit home a few weeks ago, when I attended the grand opening of the new Planned Parenthood office in downtown Brattleboro. I was frightened that the celebration would be marred by some horrendous act of violence. And still, I went. I arrived late, and the hallway was packed. I couldn't hear the first person to speak and thought, briefly, about using that as an...
Twilight Music continues its 15th annual Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of folk-rock, world beat, rock, pop, Celtic, blues, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, Aug. 6, with contemporary bluegrass and folk music quartet The Stockwell Brothers Band. Bruce, Barry, Alan, and Kelly Stockwell's music spans traditional and progressive styles, but their trademark acoustic sound features new singer/songwriter material recast with banjo, alternative rhythms, and three-part harmonies. They cover straight ahead bluegrass songs, finger picked acoustic guitar ballads, full...
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