BRATTLEBORO — Compassionate Brattleboro endorses, in the interest of compassion, Brattleboro Common Sense's efforts to articulate the Brattleboro area community's longing for, and commitment to, a world that is healthy, fair, and caring for all.
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BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
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Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
A consultant is urging the state to make dramatic changes to its health care system, including repurposing inpatient units at Grace Cottage and three other hospitals, consolidating services at others, and reforming how and how much facilities are paid for care. If fully enacted, the recommendations, contained in a 144-slide presentation released on Sept. 18, would lead to a sweeping transformation of Vermont's health care landscape. The report envisions a system in which much care takes place outside hospitals, where...
It's 1939. Producer David O. Selznick, unhappy with his efforts to bring Margaret Mitchell's blockbuster novel, Gone with the Wind to the silver screen, has halted production after three weeks of filming. He's unhappy with the script that multiple writers have struggled to tame, and he's just fired the most recent one. He's also fired the film's director, George Cukor. Selznick moans that it's costing him $50,000 a day to idle cast and crew, but he wants to get it...
“A lot of the girls here cry a lot,” a 17-year-old Guatemalan girl told a Reuters reporter in June. “A lot of them end up having to talk to someone because they have thoughts of cutting themselves.” “There is no one here I can talk to about my case. There's also no one here I can talk to when I'm feeling sad. There's no one here; I just talk to God. It helps me and I cry,” said another teenage...
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