His Excellency Žygimantas Pavilionis, Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States of America and Mexico, and Vaidotas Ašmonas, Attaché for Agriculture and Commerce, introduce themselves with a quick bow and handshake. Behind them, the Marlboro Graduate Center's Glass Room fills with the mouthwatering odors of Lithuanian foods. Although appealing, the food, and Lithuanian beer, are for guests attending the opening reception for the honorary consul of Lithuania. Pavilionis and Ašmonas visited Brattleboro for the opening of an honorary consulate on...
Osama bin Laden is finally dead more than nine years after 9/11. Fantastically, it turns out that he was holed up for the past six years or so in a three-story reinforced house in an elite suburb a few hours outside the Pakistani capital, with an entourage of almost 30, including his many wives and kids. Obviously, for this to have been so, there must have been scandalous, probably criminal complicity of many interested parties, including his influential Saudi family,
Join Bartleby's Books, 17 West Main St., on Saturday, Feb. 3, at 4 p.m., for an event with Bill Mares, editor of The Full Vermonty: Vermont in the Age of Trump. Mares will read from the book, answer questions from the audience, and sign copies of the book. This event is part of the Apres-Ski After 3 program in downtown Wilmington on Saturdays in February. The Full Vermonty is a humorous look at some Vermonters' responses to the election of...
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