This is a well-written article on Crescent Dragonwagon. I am an alumnus of Fearless Writing and love her honesty when she speaks. She is an outstanding instructor and positive influence.
AmÉe LaTour is a writer for nonprofits and lover of words and human beings. Recovery...
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
FairPoint honors Lillie for 20 years of service in telecom industry SOUTH BURLINGTON - FairPoint Communications recently recognized Local Installation and Maintenance Operations Manager Chris Lillie with a 20-year service anniversary award by Vice President of Northern New England Field Operations Rich Murtha. Lillie oversees the Brattleboro and Bennington offices. He began his career with the company as an installation and maintenance technician based out of the Milton office. He remembers being hired during a time when there was a...
The Apron Theatre Company, in association with the Next Stage Arts Project, presents Arthur Miller's Pulitzer- and Tony-award-winning play “Death of a Salesman” at Next Stage in Putney on the next two weekends in October. Following successful summer productions of “Wit” and “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” “Death of a Salesman” is the third and final production of the inaugural 2013 season by Next Stage's “theater-company-in-residence,” the Apron Theatre Company, founded this year by Karla Baldwin, Hallie Flower, and Carrie Kidd.
When Célina Houlné was terminated by the current, secretive board of trustees of the Rockingham Free Public Library [“Former library director envisions lawsuit,” Sept. 25], the overall citizenry was up in arms, knowing of no possible reason the hard-working, efficient librarian was at fault. No excuse given! A personnel matter? We - members of the Friends of the Library and others - wish to support the staff through this crisis and also through another move. The first one was proven...
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