BROOKLINE — Thank you, Becca Balint, for sharing your grandfather's words. It is beyond sad that such a kind, thoughtful man was murdered in Austria years ago, yet this hateful energy is still alive today.
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Good day to you, denizens of the windy hamlets of southeastern Vermont! We've been enduring very warm to hot temperatures and very high humidity recently. Thankfully, these conditions are coming to an end, at least for the next week. (If you listen closely, you can hear a high-pitched squeal to your south - that's me screaming for joy down in western Massachusetts!) While cooler more seasonal temperatures will arrive by Friday, we do have two more hot days and a...
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this newspaper, writes that if he didn't love his country, he "wouldn't spend so much time trying to get it to live up to its purported principles." Tim Wessel's Viewpoint chastising Vermonters who are advocating for a ceasefire in Palestine was grounded in half-truths and speculative musings. The most astonishing error was the statement that "this war" started on Oct. 7, 2023. The October attack is...
At 97, Peter Lindenfeld's present life is one to admire. His success, though, measured not in material wealth as much as in the riches of connections, good health, accomplishments, and action, was won with ample strife, as he tells in his memoir, Fragments of Time. “I'm living on borrowed time,” said Lindenfeld in a recent conversation. “I'm content with that; I'm just very fortunate and grateful to be alive and to be involved.” To read the 350-page work is to...
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