Elayne Clift (a Hillary lover) is outraged that President Trump is against unborn children being murdered. She calls his pro-life position “downright mean.”
No, Elayne, you're the one who's downright mean!
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues for almost...
The Northwest Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) is a coalition of 14 Quaker congregations in...
This letter was submitted on behalf of Spark faculty. PUTNEY-We, the faculty of the Spark...
Matt Dorsey serves on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He delivered this memoriam to...
BRATTLEBORO-JoAnne Rogers has been a member of the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Auxiliary since 1993. "I joined the organization and was the manager of the gift shop and the coffee shop at BMH," says Rogers, the organization's current president, who remembers "so many wonderful ladies" with whom she has worked over the years. The names of members past and present are a who's who of Brattleboro women. "If you've lived in this town for very long, you'll likely remember the BMH...
Something extraordinary is about to happen in Brattleboro this summer, and you should know about it. Tundi Productions - a musical-theatrical troupe founded by two Brattleborians, soprano Jenna Rae and conductor Hugh Keelan - will present its second Wagner in Vermont Festival this August at the Latchis Theatre, centered around two performances each of the operas Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. As a longtime Wagner fanatic and as an admirer of these audacious artists, I'm very excited. And as a...
When I first heard the story of Melissa Lucio, scheduled for execution just weeks away now, on April 27, I was shocked but not surprised. I had heard stories like this for decades. When I lived in Maine, one of my neighbors was a direct descendant of one of the last men put to death in the state, a case that led to the abolition of the death penalty there. Years later, in 2011, I travelled to Georgia during the...
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