RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Well over 200 people crowded into the new atrium of the 143-year old Brooks House to hear the dignitaries speak. More onlookers peered down on the crowd from second-story windows lining the hallway, ballroom, and new addition of the landmark building, closed when a five-alarm fire left the structure gutted and bandaged in plywood. The April 2011 blaze left 60 homeless and displaced 10 businesses. The shuttering of the Brooks House tore Brattleboro's economic fabric. “Only in Windham County, only...
On Tuesday, March 12, at 6:30 p.m., Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden will speak at Putney Public Library about "Comics and Queerness in Vermont and Beyond." From Charles Schulz's Peanuts to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, say organizers, "comics have been a part of American culture since print first began." But comics are no longer relegated just to the newspaper, and "as books like Maus or Persepolis have proven," we are currently experiencing a "golden age for graphic novel storytelling." What...
RE: “Visions, values, and tragedy” [Special Focus, July 17]: The main story was well written and seems well researched; it was informative and well done. Thanks for writing it. But the story about Meg McCarthy, the wife of Richard Gagnon, is asking for too much sympathy/empathy for the killer. She whines about her husband serving 17 years. He got off easy from what I've seen in this country. The wife's story could have been left out. The next story, from...
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