BRATTLEBORO — I have come to view Donald Trump simply as “The Abscess.”
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
In our culture, it is common for people to avoid talking about death - our own or that of someone we love. Sometimes people need help starting those conversations. Kasey March is a death doula - a person who helps guide and console a dying person, and their family and friends, during the end-of-life period. It is challenging, demanding, and unusual work, but it is nothing new. Doula is a Greek word that goes back centuries. It historically means “a...
Jessica M. Dolan earned her Ph.D. in anthropology at McGill University, with a specialization in environment and Indigenous studies. She has worked for Indigenous communities on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border for the last 16 years, researching Indigenous environmental philosophy, history, and governance - first as an academic and then as an employee of Indigenous governments, non-government organizations, and universities. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph. Rich Holschuh, the chair of the Vermont Commission...
Musicians from Marlboro touring program, which has been lauded as a “virtual guarantee of musical excellence” by The Washington Post, returns to the Brattleboro Music Center Saturday, April 8. The concert, set for 7 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC), will include Mendelssohn's Two Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81; Wiancko's Benkei's “Standing Death”; Kurtág's Duos for Soprano and Double Bass from The Notebooks of G. C. Lichtenberg; Kirsten's “yes I said yes I will Yes”; and Beethoven's String...
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