DUMMERSTON — Randolph Holhut writes about sports with remarkable precision and imagination.
We also appreciate the balanced tone of his Sports Roundup columns, which are never biased toward a particular team.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Windham County Republican Committee to meet BRATTLEBORO - The Windham County Republican Committee will hold a reorganizing caucus on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m., at the Brattleboro Savings & Loan Community Room. Delegates recently elected by their town committees will meet to elect county officers and state committee delegates. Positions to be filled are county chair and secretary, as well as members and alternates, if needed, to the state committee. Republican voters of Windham County who are not Town...
Since its founding in 1951, Marlboro Music has been a major influence on four generations of young musicians who have gone on to become leading figures in all areas of music. The retreat's second weekend of programs reflects the tradition it pioneered of master artists playing alongside exceptional young professionals. The concerts on Saturday, July 22, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, July 23, at 2:30 p.m., on the campus of Marlboro College, will include Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida; former St.
J. Parker Huber, who died in July, was by any measure an extraordinary individual who lived, as much as anyone could live, according to his values, even when they ran contrary to much of what pass for values in 21st-century society. For decades, Parker lived a quiet life of Thoreau-like simplicity in Brattleboro. And this was quite appropriate because he was one of the country's leading scholars and researchers on the life and times of Henry David Thoreau. I came...
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