The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...
BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
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BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
The village of Lower Bartonsville has been the driving force in getting an article on the upcoming Annual Town Meeting agenda to try to get some nominal funding for a police presence in rural parts of the town. This year, voters in Rockingham will consider spending $6,000 in taxpayer money to fund a contract with the Windham County Sheriff's Office. But opposition to the contract is emerging from the village of Bellows Falls, which funds its own police department, and...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro-based band Eloise & Company is joined by Rachel Aucoin in a performance at the Brattleboro Music Center Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m. Eloise & Co. is a shifting ensemble - often a duo and, at other times, a trio with piano or guitar. With Becky Tracy on fiddle, octave fiddle, and vocals and Rachel Bell on accordion and vocals, Eloise & Co. plays a range of music including French folk groove tunes, Celtic reels, waltzes, and Quebecois tunes.
I am finding myself drawn deeply into the Kavanaugh controversy, especially Christine Blasey Ford's part, because of the disturbing memories it awakens, and their implications. Although I have not lived in the Washington, D.C. area for over 30 years, I come from exactly the same community and setting as Kavanaugh and Ford. My parents grew up in Chevy Chase, Md. I was baptized at Blessed Sacrament, where Kavanaugh is a parishioner. Relatives are members. In my early childhood, I lived...
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