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...
In the town's villages of Brookside, South Newfane, and Williamsville, “cars [are] speeding through without slowing down, and you have a recipe for a fatality.” That's according to Annie Landenberger, a member of a group of residents in the three villages who are working with the Planning Commission as “traffic-calming liaisons” to the Selectboard. At their Oct. 15 meeting, Selectboard members responded favorably, with the town agreeing to purchase a second mobile speed cart, a device that measures the speeds...
I support Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun in her bid for reelection to a second term in the State House. Since she took office in 2021, she has served on the House Committee on Corrections and Institutions, making recommendations supporting improvements for corrections policy, as well as housing and clean water projects and state park improvements. Bos-Lun has also applied her experience in education to co-sponsor the Community Schools Bill, which passed in 2021, providing pilot projects around the state to increase...
“Every once in a while you have to take risks,” says Mara Williams, chief curator of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). Williams is speaking about “Portraits, Expanded,” the new show on display at BMAC through early January, 2015. This multi-gallery exhibit features work by artists who extend the traditional concept of portraiture to include language, voice, time, history, community, and culture. Using an innovative range and variety of media and techniques, the artists in this exhibit show us...
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