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...
The race for the U.S. House seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Peter Welch is not as clear-cut as it looked on election night. While Becca Balint of Brattleboro easily won the Democratic nomination, the top two vote-getters in the Republican primary will be running against the Senate president pro tem under different banners. Liam Madden of Rockingham received 35 percent of the vote to win the Republican primary, but there was some question about whether he would accept the...
Samirah Evans recalls when she was 5 years old, her father would tuck her into bed after they'd sing jazz and folk songs together in harmony. In her early teens, she and her father would often sing on a street, around the corner from Fenway Park. “That's how music got ingrained in me,” says Evans, who didn't know at the time that singing, performing, recording, producing, and teaching would become her lifelong career. Evans was born in Cleveland into a...
It is impossible to be a student of history without being a student of war, and this is what I have learned so far, after 45 years of studying both. War starts on impulse; the outcome can never be predicted and the aftermath never understood. War is what happens when all diplomatic means are exhausted. War is what happens when the ability to communicate and find common ground is broken apart. War is what happens when equations of power get...
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