Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, and Mollie Burke represent Brattleboro in the Vermont House of Representatives.
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
A local methadone clinic is participating in a pilot program by the Vermont Department of Health to distribute free opioid overdose rescue kits. The kits contain naloxone hydrocloride, a drug that can reverse the effects of opioid poisoning, in the form of a nasal spray. Sprayed into the nose of someone who has overdosed, naloxone (also known as the trade name Narcan) blocks the opioids and restores normal breathing. Habit OPCO, located on Town Crier Drive, announced last week that...
Rich Holschuh is co-director of the Atowi Project, an Elnu Abenaki community initiative "to affirm Native relationships to the Land and its inhabitants, raise Indigenous voices, and foster inclusion with understanding, in place," according to the organization's website. I offer these remarks on behalf of the Vermont state-recognized Abenaki communities for whom I advocate, and that are involved in a protracted, unilateral, and dismaying political challenge. Whereas I speak as an individual, I recognize that I am only enabled to...
What can possibly hurt a man who has already lost everything? “It's an awful liberation,” said author John Connolly of his protagonist, Charlie Parker, whose wife and daughter were viciously murdered in Connolly's first book, Every Dead Thing. “Compared to the original, any pain will largely pale in significance,” he said. According to Connolly's publisher, Atria Books, “Every Dead Thing broke new ground in crime fiction by fusing hard-boiled realism with glimpses of the supernatural.” In The Burning Soul, the...
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