A consultant is urging the state to make dramatic changes to its health care system,
BRATTLEBORO-After a summer of standing-room-only meetings about public safety in town, the Selectboard voted on...
NEWFANE-It's a mid-September afternoon, warm under a bright late-summer sky, and Laura Xiao of By...
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons reached out to challengers to incumbents in state legislative seats, inviting them to...
For the last few years, Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark has sounded the alarm with the towns his deputies patrol. His costs are going up, he tells them, and so will theirs. Take Putney. If the town receives the same number of patrol hours as in fiscal year 2019 from the Windham County Sheriff's Office, the proposed contract for the next year will rise by just over $11,000. But in a recent discussion, town officials explored another option that could...
Please vote Brenda Siegel for governor. When Vermonters experiencing homelessness faced a crisis, Brenda fought for them and waged a bold protest on the steps of our Capitol for days. When Bennington's Town Party created a Housing Statement of Support for housing reform, Brenda was there to help. Throughout the opioid epidemic, Brenda has championed pragmatic solutions to save lives. Meanwhile, our incumbent governor, Phil Scott, has allowed Massachusetts and Maine to reap commercial cannabis revenues for years when he...
A donation of $10,584.30 has come to the Broad Brook Community Center project toward the goal of adding a lift to the historic building's second floor. Wild Root Arts, the organization that managed the Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery from 1999 until 2006, raised the money during that era but failed to find major funding sources because the Brattleboro space is privately owned. The $2.2 million Grange project is now in its final round of construction, a phase that includes installing...
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