What happens when you hold a MAGA rally in Brattleboro? Richard Morton and friends found out - protesters with drums drown you out and wave signs that say “blue lives don’t exist” etc.

64 years ago this month, the great human rights crusader and widow of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the commencement speech at the Putney School. (Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt with Rosa Parks, subject of her speech.)

The Town of Brattleboro approved a budget without defunding police.

It’s happened again. Just days after town workers were ordered to clean spraypaint off of Brattleboro’s Civil War monument, someone has defaced the memorial to the town’s fallen - again.

A 40-year-old Bellows Falls drug dealer with at least six prior convictions shouldn’t be released from prison, federal prosecutors say. But his public defender says he’s at risk of dying of Covid-19 in prison.

The school district for Bellows Falls has cut 39 of 84 teaching assistants for the coming school year.

The library, the Town Office and other town buildings will reopen Monday. Safety precautions will be observed - minimal staffing, and the library bathroom will be closed to the public.

It’s a dog’s life. Tiny, poor Bellows Falls just can’t afford its police dog anymore.

Vermont Game wardens rescued an orphan bear cub in Stratton. 

Rick Veitch has worked on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sgt. Rock, and Swamp Thing. In 1998 he founded www.comicon.com. Now the West Townshend resident has been named Vermont’s fourth cartoonist laureate. He may not be Michelangelo, but he sure can draw him.