BRATTLEBORO — Landmark College journalism student William Epifanio contributed reporting to the July 3 Special Focus section “Flying signs.” The Commons attributed him incorrectly in the credits for that project.
PUTNEY-It was certainly not their first career when Kate and Charles Dodge founded the Putney...
BRATTLEBORO-Less than two months before the close of its fiscal year, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is...
ROCKINGHAM-The town Selectboard and the village trustees of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River have decided...
PUTNEY-In May, two friends, both residents of Putney Meadows senior housing, were walking on the...
Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital has received “age-friendly” certification and congratulations from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), which called the beloved and smallest hospital in the state “a leader in this rapidly growing movement committed to care of older adults.” In fact, Grace Cottage is among the first health care systems in the U.S. to implement IHI guidelines for age-friendly care. So far, just over 600 health-care institutions in the entire country have been named Age-Friendly Health Systems.
The New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) recently received a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts to bring in a show specifically for family audiences as well as a free workshop by the performers, also for young people and their families. Please Ship this Wet Gift will be performed as a one-hour matinee at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27, at the circus school Trapezium, and the free workshop is on Sunday, Jan. 28, from 1...
Flanders Fields is not far from Hürtgen Forest, where Jim Carr fought the Battle of the Bulge in that blistering cold that December of 1944, and not far from the POW camp where Richard Hamilton suffered that horrible winter. John McCrae's poem “In Flanders Fields” reminds us today of why we are here: * * * §In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow §Between the crosses, row on row, §{emspace}That mark our place; and in the sky §{emspace}The larks, still bravely...
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