BRATTLEBORO-After eight intense meetings to draft a new budget, the Selectboard has voted to recommend...
BRATTLEBORO-When Richard Berkfield graduated from the School for International Training in 2008, he could not...
BELLOWS FALLS-For more than two decades, residents and community leaders have been working on a...
BRATTLEBORO-On May 1, hundreds of people took to the streets of downtown Brattleboro to protect...
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital President and CEO Steve Gordon remembers getting a visit from Gov. Peter Shumlin shortly after Gordon started at the hospital. Shumlin met with the staff and physicians, and Gordon said the governor opened the meeting with a challenge: “If you don't change, you will have to close your doors.” “And then he looked at me,” said Gordon, “and said, 'Isn't that right, Steve?' As I looked around the room, I saw a lot of surprise and angst...
Poor Lilly Ledbetter must be tearing her hair out. She is the woman, you may recall, who, she once said, “sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value.” Her legal fight took place some years ago when she learned that she was earning significantly less money than men doing the same managerial work in the Alabama tire plant where she worked for nearly 20 years. The case ultimately went to the Supreme Court in 2007, where...
This is the season for giving thanks and, since 2007, Luz Elena Morey has organized an annual presentation of music, dance, visual art, poetry, and drama called Gathering in Gratitude. On Saturday, Nov. 17, at 4:45 p.m. at the Latchis 4 in Brattleboro, Mahalo Art Center will present the world premiere of the short film, Gathering in Gratitude 2012: The Source, created by filmmaker Chip Duggan with Morey. In addition to the showing of the film, there will be an...
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