BRATTLEBORO — I'm writing in appreciation of the beautiful flowers we have throughout downtown Brattleboro this summer!
Our quality of life is higher because of these flowers. Many thanks to those who are responsible for them.
Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
BELLOWS FALLS-This month, Bellows Falls Union High School will begin a partnership with the Jed Foundation, a national nonprofit, for a three-year program aimed at improving and safeguarding the emotional and mental health of students and preventing teen and young adult suicide. The Jed Foundation was established by Phil and Donna Satow following the death of their youngest son, Jed, by suicide in 1998, when he was in college. BFUHS and the Jed Foundation will collaborate on implementing a comprehensive...
Marlboro College presents Ensemble Pamplemousse, an innovative composer/performer collective founded in 2003, in concert on Sunday, Sept. 22. Part of the college's Music for a Sunday Afternoon series, the performance will take place at 3 p.m. in Ragle Hall, and is free and open to the public. Ensemble Pamplemousse fuses chamber music, popular music, theater, instrument building, electronics, and video. Over nearly two decades of collaborative work, Pamplemousse has developed into a close-knit group of divergent artistic personalities with “a...
My daughter-in-law, a savvy shopper, inadvertently exposed me to the racism of marketing in the year 2016. When I was living for several months in California, with my son's family, I would look idly at the catalogs that came almost daily in the mail until I began to pay attention. Two years before, I had attended a workshop, “White People Challenging Racism,” and with that lens, I found myself studying the images on the pages - colorful outfits for children,
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