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...
Elected Town Meeting representatives spurned a call to feed themselves a $2,500 tax-funded lunch. But that didn't stop them from spending 12 hours on March 19 chewing over $20 million in municipal matters. “Democracy is messy, and it can be frustrating,” Prudence MacKinney, vice chair of the Planning Commission, told a Zoom audience at the start of Vermont's only state-sanctioned virtual Town Meeting. “It takes time and effort to work well.” It also requires fuel, according to a Town Meeting...
Hundreds of Windham County residents - children, veterans, seniors, young adults, the employed and the unemployed, are living in a state of homelessness. An extremely disproportionate number identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color). People are unable to find a place to live and when apartments do open up, they are often far beyond the price range of the average earner. Vermont has been underdeveloping housing for over 40 years. With the increase in demand during COVID-19 and the...
Susanna Gellert, Executive Artistic Director of Weston Theater Company (WTC), formerly known as Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, announces the 86th season of Vermont's oldest, award-winning professional theater; and introduces audiences to Weston's rebranding. “We are very excited to launch our 2022 season by introducing you to our new name and look,” Gellert said in a news release. “Our rebranding came together through conversations with members of our community and our artistic family.” She said the new name “unites the historic...
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