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...
When state Commerce and Community Development Secretary Michael Schirling visited Brattleboro in late June, he toured the rapidly growing headquarters of G.S. Precision Inc. But before that, Schirling took a look at a nearby empty building - the former home of L3 KEO, a defense contractor that closed its Brattleboro operations earlier this year. That itinerary held some significance: Even as Windham County economic development officials celebrate the near-completion of G.S. Precision's $17 million expansion at Exit One Industrial Park,
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 183 Main St., presents DayDreams, an exhibition of steel sculptures by Torin Porter. The show opens Thursday, June 28, at 5 p.m., with an artist reception on Saturday, June 30, from 5-7 p.m. Porter's stylized figures reflect complex facets of humanity, creating modern world archetypes, according to a news release. Porter says of DayDreams, “[These sculptures] exist externally but we experience them internally. When we behold them with our senses, feel their weight and texture and see...
Brenda Siegel makes no secret of the fact that she struggles financially. So three years ago, when we attended the Women's Convention in Detroit, it was no shock when she laid out her budget for that weekend clearly to me. It was minimal but enough to squeak by, especially since her room and some of the meals were sponsored. Walking to the convention together one windy day, we passed by a man sleeping on the sidewalk. He was covered in...
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