BRATTLEBORO — The Twilight Tea Lounge has been a great spot! Anneka Kindler upgraded the ambience and expanded the menu.
When out-of-towners visited I would take them there. I'm sorry to see it go!
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...
In 2011, after five years of work, the Massachusetts Legislature approved a major overhaul of the state's alimony law. It did so without a single dissenting vote, “and it's very rare that happens,” said Steve Hitner, the man who led the effort. Now, a group led by Brattleboro businessman Rick Fleming is attempting to use that state's model to revamp the Vermont law that regulates - or, as the group contends, fails to regulate - the ways in which Vermonters...
The great poet Wystan H. Auden once wrote, “But poetry makes nothing happen.” And a few years later, wisely, he reversed himself. Poetry makes many things happen, especially when it comes alive in the minds of high school students. On Friday, Dec. 16, at 2 p.m., at Brattleboro Union High School, the school will present its eighth annual Poetry Out Loud Competition. Poetry Out Loud, which grows more in popularity each year, is a national poetry recitation competition for high...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it for your publication in the hope that it might give people of other traditions encouragement to articulate their own perspectives, and as an invitation to work together for justice in America for all people." BRATTLEBORO-The election has brought about a significant set of challenges to those of us who profess our faith in Jesus Christ. The president-elect, in his own words, those of his surrogates,
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