Congratulations, Robbs!
You are some of the hardest working people I know, and you deserve every maple product sale you get from this opportunity and others!
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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By day she is a warehouse worker, but her true passion lies with the moving of tiles on the Scrabble board. Word lover and Brattleboro resident Sara Corbin has recently returned from the 2022 Scrabble Players Championship, held in late July in Baltimore, where her proudest moment was when she earned 212 points for the word “squatter.” She positioned the tiles for that word on the top right-hand edge of the board, placing two onto triple-word-score squares and another onto...
On Saturday, Sept. 23, Wardsboro Curtain Call presents a dance and concert with The Barnstormerz. Marvin Bentley (South Wardsboro) and Ned Phoenix (Townshend) play their original songs and tunes. Their fiddle, guitars, piano, organ, harmonica, and vocals groove in a variety of musical styles through a blues filter. They will feature Marvin's songs about Vermont and Ned's extraordinary improvised fiddling. The Barnstormerz will play two sets of music for free-form dancing. Their original dance music includes country, blues, swing, boogie-woogie,
As our community and all of humanity adjusts to this pandemic, and to the long haul of closings, precautions, and change yet to come, we each do still have front-row seats to profound and daily shows of courage, generosity, and our collective potential as humans. Enormous thanks go out to our local health care providers, particularly in the emergency department, and to all essential service providers and grocery stores, whose staff are likewise on the front lines of keeping our...
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