Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
The signal beamed through the Internet and pinged off satellites hanging above the Earth's atmosphere crackles, skips. The momentary silence is followed by another sharp pop. “Are you still there?” asks state Sen. Peter Galbraith, D-Windham, calling via Skype from the Middle East. With the end of the 2013 legislative session, Galbraith has returned to his day job. The former diplomat is working with Kurds in Syria. The Kurdish areas in Syria are peaceful, he said. He hopes to assist...
On behalf of the Brattleboro Area Jewish Community (BAJC), I thank all those who participated in the fourth annual Israeli Film and Food Festival on Aug. 21 and 22. More than 150 movie lovers viewed some top-rated Israeli films and sampled Middle Eastern fare while helping BAJC raise much-needed funds. Our fundraiser was successful in a large part because of the support we received from local businesspeople who purchased ads in our program book or donated merchandise to raffle. We...
Students from three housing communities in Brattleboro have created accordion books of artwork and poetry that are currently on display at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro. The project, titled “Image to Page,” took place during outdoor classes sponsored by the Art in the Neighborhood program over the summer months. Staff from the program elicited descriptive words for poems from the students while the students painted and drew. Art in the Neighborhood, founded by state Rep. Mollie S. Burke, P/D-Brattleboro, has...
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