There could be no predicting the consequences of a 13-year-old junior high school student hearing a public address announcement stating that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed in ...

BRATTLEBORO-Two attorneys at vastly different points in their careers are vying for the open seat in District 9 vacated by Rep. Tristan Toleno, who will retire at the end of his term after serving for ...

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Construction work on a new train station, which will include the first elevated passenger platform in the state, is now set to start in March, says Amtrak Lead Public Relations Specialist Jen Flanagan ...

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BRATTLEBORO-The Annual Town Election takes place for all town voters on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 4, and eight candidates are competing for three seats on the Selectboard. The following ...

BELLOWS FALLS-In May, a community group will begin unveiling its work on a $37,000 study of the Native rock carvings next to the Vilas Bridge on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River. The Kchi ...

Also signing this letter were Ellen Martyn, Sara Longsmith, Emilie Kornheiser, Elizabeth Tannenbaum, Peter Fallon, and Beth Kiendl, all of Brattleboro, and Ann Darling, of Easthampton, Massachusetts.

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BRATTLEBORO-Charlie Light has finally got the film in the can. Having started to document the development of communes in Guilford and in Montague, Massachusetts in real time in the 1970s, Light is ...