RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]:
After two years, reading this story breaks my heart. Richard Gagnon, thank you for writing. My prayers for you, and for everyone in Brattleboro, continue.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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In-Sight Photography Project's 22nd annual auction is an event where, as the organization put in a news release, “a broad community of artists and In-Sight supporters come together to put on an exhibition that showcases the wide breadth of creativity and vision present in the photo world. It would not be possible without the hundreds of bidders who buy the work.” And the event's organizers say they want to recognize that broad-based support from the arts and photographic worlds by...
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