Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
The Brattleboro Retreat received another visit from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) this week. CMS is resurveying the private psychiatric hospital following a number of compliance issues on the part of the Retreat earlier this year. Once the survey is completed, it has 10 days to report any findings to the Retreat. If surveyors find that the hospital is not following the Plan of Correction the Retreat submitted to federal regulators, CMS will terminate its provider agreement on...
As with many political discussions, things are somewhat different in Brattleboro. While voter suppression and intimidation are realities in many places, we don't have to worry about those things here. Nonetheless, we remain directly affected by elections that happen in other communities and other states. Our future is dependent on their elections and elected officials. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in a presidential election, where a few thousand votes in another state can determine the fate of our...
Village Square Booksellers in Bellows Falls welcomes Vermont author Elayne Clift, who, with three other poets, will participate in a virtual event on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 1 p.m. The four poets will read from and discuss A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic, the poetry anthology on the COVID-19 pandemic that Clift has edited. According to a news release, the anthology was borne out of the longing “for the touch of loved ones, to fight anxiety and despair,
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