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BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a...
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The most heavily utilized food shelf in Windham County will soon have a new - and larger - home. Groundworks Collaborative announced last week that it has signed a lease on 141 Canal St., the former home of Domino's Pizza, as the new site for its food shelf. In 2018, the Groundworks food shelf served more than 3,700 people in more than 1,400 households. Originally a program of the Brattleboro Area Drop-in Center and started in the 1980s, the food...
Visiting master Senegalese dancer, teacher, and choreographer Caro Diallo offers an intensive weekend of Zumba and dance classes on Nov. 15 and 16 at the Stone Church, 210 Main St. This is Diallo's eighth time visiting Brattleboro. He taught twice a week here in August and September. Organizers say this is the last chance to take classes with him before he heads back to Senegal and Switzerland, where he teaches the rest of the year. Diallo, a certified Zumba teacher...
When I was 13, the family took a trip to Norfolk, Va. That same week, some Navy unit had just come home from its deployment. There must've been at least 400 sailors, all in their dress whites. I looked at my mother, and I told her: “When I'm old enough, I'm going to join the Navy and defend our country.” For years, I couldn't stop thinking about that one sentence. I didn't exactly know what I meant at the time,
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