BRATTLEBORO — Aww! After all these years eating at the Chelsea Royal Diner, it's so sweet to know the story. I wish I had known it earlier on! I know where we're going out next!
Beautiful writing, Wendy M. Levy!
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...
Police are cautioning people to watch for skimmers - electronic devices used to illegally capture personal information stored on bank cards - when using local ATMs and other machines that scan credit or debit cards. According to a Brattleboro Police Department press release, thieves can attach these skimmers to legitimate card scanners like ATMs or gas pumps and steal bank account information and other data. Detectives from the BPD's Criminal Investigation Division launched an investigation on Sept. 22, when the...
Any performance of Tristan und Isolde is an event, but the presentation in a small New England town of Richard Wagner's musical paean to erotic love is positively a phenomenon. Tristan und Isolde is a massive work that requires superb singers and an enormous orchestra, as well as a gifted conductor able to cope with all of this. Because of the demands it makes on producers and performers, it is rarely performed outside of big cities with major opera houses.
I offer my enthusiastic support for Emilie Kornheiser's bid for state representative. I've lived and worked in the Brattleboro area for my entire adult life. As a clinical psychologist, I care deeply about our community - though recently, like many of us, I have become increasingly skeptical and distressed about politics and politicians. When I shuffled into Emilie's campaign kickoff gathering, my cynicism came along. But then she began to tell us about her inclusive worldview; she revealed a nuanced...
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