RE: “Coming home” [Arts, June 13].
Grants Ferry is a very good read. I especially liked David Chase's sneaky sense of humor.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
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Carolers sing “Tis the season to be jolly.” Unless you're grieving a death. Or divorce. Or job loss, health challenge, hunger, homelessness, or separation from a loved one. “There's all sorts of sadness,” Devin Starlanyl says. The member and lay minister at Brattleboro's St. Michael's Episcopal Church knows seasonal tunes declaring “all is merry and bright” don't comfort those feeling otherwise. That's why she and her peers are organizing a “Longest Night” service for the public this weekend. “There can...
“Every once in a while you have to take risks,” says Mara Williams, chief curator of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). Williams is speaking about “Portraits, Expanded,” the new show on display at BMAC through early January, 2015. This multi-gallery exhibit features work by artists who extend the traditional concept of portraiture to include language, voice, time, history, community, and culture. Using an innovative range and variety of media and techniques, the artists in this exhibit show us...
Vermont prides itself on having citizen legislators, as opposed to professional politicians, while the lobbying in Montpelier for special interests is done by well-funded professional lobbyists. For the past eight years, our legislators and regulators have been bombarded by renewable-energy lobbyists. The message has been that Vermont must do “everything” and we must “do it now” to save the planet from climate change. The urgency of the pitch has made it seem as if Vermont alone is responsible for the...
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