The headline of Elayne Clift's column [“Recipe for pandemic,” Oct. 2] was very obviously wrong. As was clear in the text of the column, one third of the world's population in 1918 and 1919 was infected by the avian flu virus. However bad that was, your editor apologizes for inadvertently claiming that all those people died from it.
People experiencing homelessness live in a range of conditions. Some live in motels, like the more than 93 Brattleboro households participating in the state's General Assistance Emergency Housing Program. Others, largely uncounted, live in tents in the woods, in friends' barns and sheds, in cars, garages, and campers - all situations that do not meet all the human needs for comfort and security. In Putney, approximately 40 people live outside and in campers, according to Fire Chief Tom Goddard, who...
It was once the most affluent country in Latin America. The average person owned a car, and even those living in the poor outskirts of its major cities had a refrigerator, a gas stove, and a television set - things then considered luxuries - even when they did not always have access to running water. I lived in Venezuela with my parents and sisters from 1954 to 1964. Exiled from my native Bolivia after a revolution, arriving in the capital...
The Vermont Symphony's “Made in Vermont” chamber orchestra's statewide tour continues Friday, Sept. 27, with a 7:30 p.m. concert at the Brattleboro Music Center. The visit is especially meaningful to the BMC because of Vermont Symphony Orchestra Conductor Jaime Laredo's role, with his wife, Sharon Robinson as the BMC Artistic Advisers. The program features Ifetayo Ali-Landing, a teenage cellist from the Sphinx Program, playing Haydn's famous C Major Concerto. Ali-Landing began her musical studies on the violin and switched to...
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