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...
As Saturday turned to dusk at the quiet of a closed-for-the-weekend county courthouse in Brattleboro, a lone figure walked up, carrying a kerosene lantern. All over the country, vigils were taking place at courthouses, organized less than 24 hours after news of the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg broke the day before. To many, Ginsburg, 87, was a hero who as an attorney argued groundbreaking cases in front of the highest court in the land before she herself would be...
Marlboro Music, Vermont's cherished chamber music retreat, closes its 67th season with three fascinating programs on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 11 and 12, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 13, at 2:30 p.m., on the campus of Marlboro College, with most of the resident artists joining conductor Leon Fleisher in performances of Stravinsky's delightful “Pulcinella Suite” on Friday and Mozart's “Linz Symphony” on Sunday. Friday's program also includes Resident Composer Brett Dean's “Winter Songs” for tenor and woodwind quintet; George...
We are angry and disgusted with the Supreme Court's recent decision on abortion rights. But how can we harness action to anger? The Brattleboro Selectboard will soon consider a resolution supporting the right to abortion. This is not enough. A resolution (or protest demonstration) can be effective if it publishes a new idea, provokes attention in a new way, or if the number of signers and their names strengthen their idea. Martin Luther King Jr. was especially effective in organizing...
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