VERNON-Liberal, progressive, conservative, orthodox, right wing, left wing - descriptive words that we use to...
SAXTONS RIVER-On Tuesday, Nov. 5, I will be voting for Leslie Goldman and Michelle Bos-Lun...
BRATTLEBORO-Dear Brattleboro Voter, You will be receiving an absentee ballot in the mail for the...
BRATTLEBORO-We were thrilled to discover Mollie Burke would be our representative to the State Legislature...
Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark took an extended, public drubbing for his now-defunct Liberty Mill Justice Center proposal, and he admits the experience left him “bloodied a little bit.” But Clark is unbowed in his quest for new programs that he believes could change Vermont's criminal justice system and bolster local law enforcement. In fact, he insists that nearly all aspects of the Liberty Mill plan - aside from the controversial detention center - remain feasible in the not-so-distant future.
When six Republicans met in South Carolina recently to discuss combating poverty, their focus was predictable. Marco Rubio talked about broken families, dangerous neighborhoods, substandard housing, failing schools, and drug dealers, all while rejecting the idea of raising the federal minimum wage. He argued that welfare should be turned over to states, especially those that have recipient work requirements. Jeb Bush, who agrees with Rubio on states taking over welfare, blathered about giving Americans the “right to rise.” Ben Carson...
Print Town: Brattleboro's Legacy of Words, published by the Vermont Historical Society with an introduction by Tom Bodett, will launch Wednesday, Dec. 9, with a Zoom event from 7 to 8 p.m. The first half of the launch will be moderated by Print Town Art Editor Stephanie Greene, a local writer whose parents founded and ran Brattleboro's famed Stephen Greene Press, along with Editor Michael Fleming, a freelance writer and longtime editor of Norton literary anthologies, and designer James F.
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