MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't...
BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a...
BRATTLEBORO-Great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires is also a great, great fundraiser. The 94-year-old Guilford resident arrived at...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is seeking $4 million in expense reductions and new revenue in the...
How do you replace a community nonprofit that has delivered warm winter clothing to children in need for three generations? How do you duplicate an all-volunteer organization that, over the past few years, has raised an average of about $95,000 every December, with 99 percent of the money raised going toward coats and boots for kids ranging from infants to 15-year-olds? How do you take over for a charity that helped more than 1,500 children last year, doing everything from...
In 1994, at the Women's Crisis Center in Brattleboro, we were very careful about how we spoke. We did not speak on behalf of battered women, for that would be to rob them of their voices. Nor did we call them “battered women,” for that imposed an identity of powerlessness. Nor did we call them “clients,” for that assumed that we had some authority and expertise, as if we were Social Workers. We fretted over language because we didn't want...
Photographer David Holzapfel believes that sometimes art comes from the mundane, random accidents of life, such as when one's DVD player fails to work properly. That is the subject of his new series of photographs, “DwarfGlitch,” which he will be displaying at A Candle in the Night on 181 Main St. throughout May. A reception for the opening of the show is Friday, May 3, during Gallery Walk. Holzapfel explains, “'DwarfGlitch' comes from lived experience, from the techno-nonsense that is...
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