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...
This town's initial protest against the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling to overturn abortion rights was simple: 100 people congregating downtown to chant, “My body, my choice.” Ten days later, a local demonstrator, saying “forced birth is appallingly cruel and morally grotesque,” marched naked down Main Street, doused in fake blood, just before the start of the Fourth of July parade. Now the Selectboard is considering making its own statement with “A Resolution to Protect Pregnant People's Access to Abortion,”
In the view of Reporters Without Borders (RWB), which recently released its 2011-12 Press Freedom Index, “Never has freedom of information been so closely associated with democracy. Never have journalists, through their reporting, vexed the enemies of freedom so much. Never have acts of censorship and physical attacks on journalists seemed so numerous. The equation is simple: the absence or suppression of civil liberties leads necessarily to the suppression of media freedom.” That's a big reason why last year, according...
Prints by painter Aldro T. Hibbard will be sold as a fundraiser on Sunday, Nov. 5, at the Townshend Town Hall. A free event, “Early Photos of Townshend” will begin at 4 p.m., followed by light refreshments and the opportunity to purchase a print that had formerly been on sale in Hibbard's Rockport art studio. Although these are copies rather than originals, they are “quite charming and depict Hibbard at his best in Vermont,” according to a news release. Hibbard...
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