A contribution to the Sept. 4 Letters from Readers column called out U.S. Rep. Peter Welch for not voicing support for impeaching President Donald Trump.
Welch, in fact, called for Trump's impeachment on July 18.
When Karen Peterson began work at the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont in 1993, the novice assistant toiled daily in the shadow of a disease that was a certain death sentence. Peterson would go on to witness lifesaving advances in testing and treatment as she climbed the career ladder to become the Brattleboro-based nonprofit's executive director in 2013. So why, as she prepares to step down after three decades of work, is her job harder than ever? “I get comments...
As she prepares for her performances of Bob Chilcott's St. John Passion, Susan Dedell has had misgivings about whether she should even be presenting the piece in the first place. Her concerns are not with Chilcott's music, which she thinks “glorious,” but with the ecclesiastical text itself. “I have conflicting emotions about the passion narrative by St. John,” Dedell says. “The text was written four centuries after the death of Christ, and has a different flow than the other gospels.
Recently, I glanced around at the tables of new offerings at the bookstore and saw one that intrigued me: The Girl in the Yellow Pantsuit: Essays on politics, history, and culture, by Becca Balint. The fact that Becca is the author intrigued me, and so did the title, so I added the book to my pile. I had never read any of her columns, so I didn't know what to expect when I began reading. Three hours later, I put...
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