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...
Vermont likes to think of itself as a leader in health care, but Peter Sterling will quickly tell you that doesn't necessarily mean that everything is fine. There are 44,000 uninsured Vermonters, he says, and 70 percent cite cost as the reason why. If you are enrolled in Vermont Health Connect, Sterling says people have to pay up to 30 percent of their gross income for health care should an individual or family reach their out-of-pocket limit. This means an...
Brattleboro is my home. I was born at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital in 1973, and I've lived here for the great majority of my nearly 38 years. I attended Brattleboro schools, played for its sports teams, been involved in its arts, and have remained an active member of the community. In Brattleboro, I've seen unspeakable beauty as well as horrific ugliness. I've experienced every exquisite pleasure and devastating pain. I've fallen in love and have felt heartbreak. Here I've reached my...
Bluesman Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton will appear at Next Stage on Friday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. Paxton is an American musician from Los Angeles who now lives in Queens, N.Y. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Paxton's style draws from blues and jazz music before World War II and was influenced by Fats Waller and “Blind” Lemon Jefferson. “Blind Boy Paxton is six-foot-two, but he only stands to get bigger,” The Village Voice wrote about Paxton, a young man who plays...
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