BRATTLEBORO-Carolyn Pieciak can tell you how she made peanut butter, jelly, and Fluff sandwiches for...
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In the sometimes-acrimonious debate over the future of Windham Southeast Supervisory Union, there are no easy solutions. So when state Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe visited the union's Act 46 Study Committee on March 17, she faced pointed questions about consolidation, finances, school choice, and school closures. The most-succinct inquiry might have come from Dummerston resident Ruth Barton. “What happens if this thing don't work? You got an answer for that, young lady?” Holcombe declined to offer a specific roadmap for...
Although I am a white guy, I share Curtiss Reed Jr.'s outrage about what happened to Shela Linton and what has been happening to other people of color. I support Curtiss's call for action, including action by those he has labeled as “allies.” But to me, “allies” is a positive label for people banding together in a common cause, such as was used during World War II, conveying the willingness to take decisive action to achieve that cause. Being an...
A group of 11 artists from the Newfane area have joined forces to offer a holiday shop at Catherine Dianich Gallery in Brattleboro. On display and on sale are works by Kim Hartman Colligan, Ellen Darrow, Dan DeWalt, Richard Foye, Caryn King, Lauri Richardson, Georgie, Roger Sandes, Deidre Scherer, Christine Triebert, and Mary Welsh. Colligan, of Newfane, creates prints that “involve creating a surface that becomes an environment.” “As each piece evolves I begin making references to nature in some...
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