MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't...
BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a...
BRATTLEBORO-Great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires is also a great, great fundraiser. The 94-year-old Guilford resident arrived at...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is seeking $4 million in expense reductions and new revenue in the...
On Sunday, Jan. 28 - a day after International Holocaust Remembrance Day - the creators of The Cure for Hate: Bearing Witness to Auschwitz will bring the 85-minute documentary, released last month, to the Latchis for a screening and discussion. The film features former neo-Nazi Tony McAleer and depicts, according to a media release, his "journey from a troubled teen drawn into white supremacist ideology to a man trying to make amends for his hate-filled past." McAleer, the film's subject,
After reading the sadly misguided piece by Bill Conley, I felt compelled to respond. No, Bill, it is not the producers of products who are responsible for the disposal of their packaging - that is the responsibility of the person purchasing the product. In other words, I assume if you are able to afford a Big Mac at McDonald's, you will walk past a place to properly dispose of its wrapper (multiple plastic garbage cans). Even poor people cannot pretend...
Students from 31 Vermont high schools representing 11 counties will travel to the Barre Opera House on March 7 to recite poems on stage in the Vermont Poetry Out Loud 2019 Semifinals. Two of those students are Yiwen “Eva” Wu from Vermont Academy and Ada Melton-Houghton from Brattleboro Union High School. They will vie for the state championship in this prestigious poetry recitation competition, which is administered by the Vermont Arts Council under the auspices of the National Endowment for...
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