Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
Dissolving the multilayered societal and economic causes behind homelessness can feel daunting. But photographer Liz LaVorgna and a creative team have turned to a simple, perhaps mundane, first step to foster social change: sharing a cup of coffee. “If you're able to have a conversation, if you're able to connect with somebody, all these preconceived ideas of somebody that you have or had can kind of fall away and you can actually get to know somebody - and I think...
The madrigal, a genre of 16th- and 17th-century music, will be showcased on Sunday, March 10, at the Brattleboro Music Center when In Stile Moderno performs "Madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi (for Five Voices and Theorbo)." An ensemble for early music which began in 2012 in Basel, Switzerland, In Stile Moderno was founded by soprano Agnes Coakley Cox and Brattleboro's own lutenist/cornettist, Nathaniel Cox. According to its website, the group was named after the "modern style" of music which emerged in...
I am assuming that for all of us, there is no question what we'll be doing on Nov. 3. If we haven't done so already through mail-in ballots, we will be participating in what is unquestionably the most important act that we as citizens of this country have ever done. We will be electing the next president of the United States, and in so doing, deciding the fate of our threatened democracy. But what happens after Election Day? What will...
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