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BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
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BELLOWS FALLS-It has taken two years since researchers first began accumulating evidence, but on June 7, scientists announced that shortnose sturgeon are living in the Connecticut River as far north as the hydroelectric dam in Bellows Falls. Sturgeon exist in the fossil record going back 250 million years and, for thousands of years, have been native species in the Connecticut River. But this is the first time that sturgeon, which can grow up to 4.5 feet in length and live...
BRATTLEBORO-Sarasa Ensemble performs music of Mozart for the program titled "Night at the Opera" at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) on Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m. "Mozart's ability to explore the human condition is apparent in his string quartets as well as his operas," wrote event promoters in a news release. This program features not only Mozart works, but compositions by two contemporaries who also introduced dramatic personae in their instrumental music, Hyacinthe Jadin and Carlo Monza. The concert...
BRATTLEBORO-As local and global understanding of Israeli genocide against Palestinians has grown over the past eight months, and opposition to the actions of Israel builds, there have been many words printed in these pages expressing a feeling of Jewish unsafety. One writer objects to hearing the term "the Zionist project" - a term long used by historians to describe the modern political and demographic movement that created the Jewish-majority state of Israel - as antisemitic, and somehow "trickling down" to...
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