BRATTLEBORO — Last year, on U.S. profits of $5.6 billion, Amazon didn't pay federal income tax.
The company's “warehouse associates,” who work at $12.63 per hour, did.
BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,
BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,
Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...
Cindy Jerome is one of three candidates running for a seat in the Vermont Legislature in the Windham-4 district towns of Dummerston, Putney, and Westminster. Jerome, 58, lives in West Dummerston and has been a resident since the mid-1980s. She has been Town Moderator for the last eight years and she has served on the Dummerston Selectboard, including two years as Chair. For 19 years, she has been the executive director of Holton Home, a residential-care home for elders in...
In 2018, the president at the time was perpetuating stigma and causing fear, blaming mass shootings on people with mental health challenges. At the time, I was a teacher and mental health advocate, and I asked to speak at Putney's March for our Lives rally. I addressed the crowd of 400 Vermonters, speaking about an issue close to my heart. In my talk - “Guns and Mental Illness: It's Not What You Think” - I raised concerns about the extraordinarily...
A chance encounter during the summer of 2019 between New York–based painter John Newsom and Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) Director Danny Lichtenfeld gave rise to the 17-artist exhibit currently on view in the museum's capacious Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery. “Expedition” opened on June 19 and remains on view through Oct. 11. It marks the first time that artwork by actor and filmmaker Matt Dillon, who is also a practicing visual artist, has appeared in a museum.
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