PUTNEY — Retired Brattleboro Police Department Captain Mark Carignan's premier novel Out from Under: George V. Higgins would have admired it.
If you know who he was, that's my review.
If you don't, read both.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
This article is supposed to be about Cor Trowbridge. Yet, as she consults the press release she wrote announcing that she will step down after 18 years as Brattleboro Community Television's executive director, she uses the opportunity to pitch the station. "For me, that's the headline: BCTV is in great shape and completely ready to go to the next level with a new leader," she said. BCTV was the first station of its kind in Vermont. Between its four full-time...
BELLOWS FALLS-On Friday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m., an international concert series begins at the Bellows Falls Opera House, presented by Ashuelot Concerts. The four concerts will feature the Sitkovetsky Trio - cellist Nina Lee and British chamber musicians Louisa Stonehill (violin) and Nicholas Burns (piano) - with a program of masterworks by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Grieg. Ashuelot Concerts is a nonprofit organization that brings live chamber music from the world's leading concert halls into rural classrooms and concert halls...
Dan DeWalt reveals that not only does he not like algebra but, in fact, many others also do not. As part of a commendable commentary outlining the shortcomings of our standard history textbooks in accurately presenting all sides in several situations he opines that “No one would expect white Americans to enjoy reading [the corrected version],” which includes what America really did to the Cubans during the Spanish-American War; that Custer, before his last stand, wiped out a peaceful encampment...
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