Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Is the cost of housing putting or keeping locals in poverty? Is it driving young adults and elders away? Is a housing shortage hindering economic development because new business owners and employees have nowhere to live? And, if all this is so, is there anything the town can do about it? Selectboard members discussed affordable housing, and what role town government can possibly play in it, at the Nov. 20 regular board meeting. Board member David Schoales, who introduced the...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of acoustic/electric Americana music from Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., by The Slambovian Circus of Dreams (a.k.a., The Grand Slambovians) on Saturday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill. The music of The Slambovian Circus of Dreams has been described as “hillbilly-Floyd,” “folk-pop,” “alt-country, roots-rock,” and “surreal Americana,” according to a news release. The quartet employs a broad palette of styles, from dusty Americana ballads to huge Pink...
Most of us have heard of Easter Island, that remote place in the South Pacific where giant-headed stone statues stare forlornly out to sea. In its story, there may be a message for us today. Archeologists and paleontologists, using carbon dating and pollen analysis, determined that the island was first settled about 400 A.D. Settlers arrived in a subtropical paradise with abundant resources. By about 1400, the island was deforested. With deforestation went the wood needed for cookfires, shelter, seafaring...
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