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...
The Selectboard meeting room on the second floor of the Municipal Center had a celebratory atmosphere last week. Board members, BCTV staff, and members of the public greeted one another with smiles and surprise as they assembled for the first in-person and online hybrid board meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic started last year. They conducted their July 6 regular meeting seated behind their table in the meeting room while also beaming the meeting through the Zoom videoconference platform with the...
I admit, the presence of the many street people in Brattleboro can be very disturbing to some. I understand that extreme poverty, severe mental illness, and opioid-use disease are not pretty, not easy to witness. However, there are different ways of dealing with this problem, and printing an anonymous letter from business owners who are afraid to use their own names is not a helpful or productive way to approach a national crisis. Brattleboro is a tiny part of the...
The Brattleboro Women's Chorus starts on Wednesday, Sept. 12, with an Open Sing for Women at All Soul's Church in West Brattleboro from 7 to 8:30 p.m.. All community women are welcome to join in on this evening of singing together, which is also the opening night of rehearsals for the chorus' 17th year. The chorus meets Wednesdays, from 7 to 8:45 p.m. after the Open Sing, and welcomes all women and girls over 10 who enjoy singing. Most songs...
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