The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...
BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
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BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
When I sat at the kitchen table where the Brattleboro Area Hospice's Pet Loss Support Group meets, I thought I had come there for a fairly straightforward interview about the group, how it formed, and some attendees' experiences with it. My plan was to first gather the information, then go home and write the article, just as I always do. I didn't realize until partway through the interview that I was actually participating from within, not reporting from afar. That...
A limited number of calendars featuring the artwork of longstanding graphic artist and printmaker Rita Corbin will be available for sale at Everyone's Books at 25 Elliot St. during the holiday season. Corbin, who moved to the area in 1981, lived on and off here until her death in 2011 due to injuries suffered in a car accident. Her children, who live in the Brattleboro area, continue to publish the calendar and cards using her artwork, selling them primarily by...
It took me until the age of 54, but finally my luck at avoiding a major illness and hospitalization ended in 2016. I spent five days in March at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, N.H., after being hospitalized with what the doctors called an idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Translation: my bone marrow hiccuped and stopped producing reticulocytes, or the good red blood cells, and my hemoglobin count got dangerously low. The good news was that there was no cancer,
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