BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
GUILFORD-A term often used regarding a military action is "collateral damage." This term masks the...
-On a Sunday night, Kelsey Rice found her abuser at her home again, out on bail after an arrest hours earlier. The courts had ordered him to stay away. He didn't. He assaulted her that March 2019 night, she said, threatening to kill them both - and not for the first time. Authorities should've told Rice, who lives in the Brattleboro area, that the man was getting out. She didn't get a call until days later, she told state lawmakers...
Watch for this headline: “Nuclear Free Vermont Pickets Supermarket; Radioactive Food Discovered In Produce Section.” And it wouldn't be a joke. Food contains radioactivity. One ordinary banana contains radioactivity equivalent to 40 liters of water with the EPA's maximum allowable concentration of tritium: 0.00000002 curies of tritium per liter. That number appears tiny when written in terms of the basic radiation unit, curies. However, science and the media report tritium concentrations in picocuries. A picocurie is a trillionth of a...
John S. Dimick of Guilford is best known around the area for his years of coaching successful cross-country teams at Brattleboro Union High School. Since retiring from his lengthy career of teaching and long distance running two years ago, he has returned to one of his first loves: painting. In “A Runner's Next Steps,” an exhibition of watercolor and oil paintings that will be on display during April at the Latchis Theatre, Dimick shows work that was inspired by the...
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