I love the sketch by Karen Becker of the chorus singing. How refreshing it is to have a drawing done on the site of local activities.
Would that The Commons have more illustrations like this one.
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MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Town Meeting members and members of the public have two opportunities for a deep dive into questions, including funding for a $12.5 million Water Treatment Facilities Project, that will be decided at Annual Representative Town Meeting (ARTM) on Saturday, March 20. Meeting members, new and returning, will also have a chance to practice the technical and logistical procedures for conducting the ARTM on Zoom. “March will be busy,” Town Manager Peter Elwell said. First on the calendar is the ARTM...
Acclaimed percussionist and marimbist Ayano Kataoka performs music by Vermont composer Stuart Saunders Smith at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Friday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m. A discussion with the performer and composer follows. Kataoka and cellist Yo-Yo Ma perfored last season at the American Museum of Natural History in a world premiere of Bruce Adolphe's “Self Comes to Mind” for cello and two percussionists, based on a text by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. The work featured interactive video...
In the fall of 2004, my friend Kay's husband, the love of her life, left this world after a long illness. Kay decided to keep their tradition, and so, three months later, without her Richard, she went to the annual extended family Christmas weekend celebration they'd always gone to together. If you're a fellow widow, you will understand how surreal those days were for her, how deeply out of place she felt. How she went through the motions, physically present...
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