BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro has been fortunate to have Jerry Carbone, a leader and gentleman, at the helm of its library.
Now for his golf game: perhaps a little more time devoted to the game will pick things up a bit.
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...
BRATTLEBORO-In 1961, President John F. Kennedy's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, was tapped to assist in training college-aged youth for the launch of Kennedy's Peace Corps program, leading to the establishment of the School for International Training (SIT) in 1964, which allowed university students to study abroad. Now, 60 years later, SIT acts as the academic arm of World Learning, Inc., a global nonprofit focused on development and exchange with an umbrella of programming, educational opportunities, and training at home and abroad.
Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal St., presents the exhibit “Martha Nichols: Mountain Sea and Sky” through May 8. It is the second exhibition for Nichols, of Andover, Vt., and it is the artist's inaugural solo show with the gallery. “Color, light and, more recently, sound are my primary interests,” Nichols wrote in her artist statement. “We are surrounded by ever-changing light, color, and sound as we go about our days in the landscape. I explore the vast variety of...
The writer is a member of the Rockingham Selectboard but submits this letter as a citizen. SAXTONS RIVER-Voters attending Rockingham's 2025 Annual Town Meeting at the Bellows Falls Middle School on Saturday, March 1 at 2 p.m. will decide the future of our fire and rescue services. Article 9 will ask the voters to approve the creation of a single municipal Fire and Rescue Department managed by the town. The plan includes three stations in Rockingham, Saxtons River, and Bellows...
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