WILMINGTON — Maybe try walking, since you can't drive safely (so you say). And slow the hell down if you can't stop. Genius.
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...
Every spring, Southeastern Vermont Community Action has an annual meeting, open to the public, to showcase its work. From its Westminster headquarters and three thrift stores, SEVCA's staff of approximately 100 workers addresses a wide range of poverty-related needs, including assistance with housing, heating fuel, food and nutrition, early childhood development, and affordable clothing and household needs. This year, said SEVCA Executive Director Steve Geller, “we're having a more open event, revolving around the community, not just us.” On May...
Wendy Redlinger's Jazz soirée, located at 2596 Tater Lane, presents the Bob Stabach 4tet on Sunday, March 11, at 3 p.m. The 4tet will be performing original new compositions along with some Great American Songbook classics recast in the jazz style. Most of the new compositions are penned by Bob Stabach, the saxophonist and leader of the group. One of the new compositions is titled “Portrait.” Stabach started composing this piece three years ago, then shelved it until three months...
Cabaret, a landmark musical when it opened in 1966, will reveal its potency once again when it opens Friday, March 13 at the Bellows Falls Opera House. This decadent entertainment depicts the rise of the Third Reich as seen through the veil of a seedy nightclub. As the dancers cavort before us, we become distracted, laughing, titillated by the exuberant depravity. Caught up in the 1920s version of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, we laugh along with the expanding...
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