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...
On Labor Day, Sept. 7, 1942, far from the horror of World War II, local farm families set aside time to catch up during a pause in the season between haying and cutting corn. “It was also a chance to celebrate soldiers coming home from the service,” Harry Evans says. Evans was 5 years old at the time of Guilford's first Old Home Day, which over the next 75 years would evolve into the Guilford Fair, an upbeat two-day festivity...
Bellows Falls's culture mavens, Popolo, are bringing recording artists Arc Iris to The Stone Church in Brattleboro on Friday, Nov. 9, at 8 p.m. Opening are Aubrey Haddard and Ben Lazar Davis. According to a news release, “even casual listeners can tell that Arc Iris isn't like the other kids. They build sonic landscapes according to their own rules and broad musical vocabulary. Their lyrics open doors of the imagination and their vocals are simultaneously otherworldly and salt of the...
She is a 76-year-old woman, a cancer survivor, and caretaker for her 94-year-old mother. She spent 16 years in prison for distributing heroin before being released to house arrest last year. Her name is Gwen Levi, and she was doing well - until she didn't answer a phone call from her parole officer because she was in a computer class she hoped would lead to employment. Now she's back in jail because she didn't take the call, considered a violation...
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