PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
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...
Town Clerk Annette Cappy has tinkered the logistics of voting in Brattleboro into a well-oiled machine. For at least 20 years, Cappy and her brigade of town employees, members of the Board of Civil Authority, volunteers, and a moving company have operated primaries and elections from Brattleboro Union High School's gymnasium. Not this year. This year, Cappy and crew will load the Municipal Center's elevator. They will trundle polling booths, ballots, and electronic vote-counting machines to the Selectboard Meeting Room...
SAXTONS RIVER-On Valentine's Day, Friday, Feb. 14, Main Street Arts is hosting a family dance with MSA's string band from 6 to 8 p.m. The dance is a barn dance style, called by Louisa Engle, and open to all ages and ability levels. Main Street Arts's string band is led by Jill Newton and is the oldest program at MSA, running for more than 35 years. Tickets are $5 for an individual and $10 for a family, available for purchase...
It's ironic that Suzie Webster-Toleno, M.Div., finds a contraindication to “our culture of toxic masculinity” in Scripture. Beginning with God's complicity in the classic blackmail scheme of Abraham and Sarah, in which they shame the noble Pharaoh into buying them off with uncountable riches (a scam they repeated years later with King Abimelich), the deity in which she finds examples to assuage revengeful rage is Himself the quintessential enraged avenger. “My name is Jealous,” He informs us, as gay-loving Sodom...
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