The Vermont Attorney General's Office has ruled that a local police officer and two state troopers were justified when they shot and killed a man on July 19 after he was suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend. Brattleboro Officer Ryder Carbone and Vermont State Police detective sergeants Jesse Robson and Samuel Truex aimed their guns at Matthew Davis, 34, of Fitchburg, Mass., after he ran toward them with a knife, the Attorney General's Office said on Sept. 26. The sequence of...
Ironically, what is potentially most promising about our situation today is that the same circumstances that confront us with social collapse and possible extinction also conspire to present us with an unprecedented opportunity to finally get it right, to live the values-informed existence we have been searching for all along, and that we now require more than ever, as a condition of our very survival. As the Chinese ideograms for the word suggest, crisis is a time not only of...
You are sent for. The New England Youth Theatre's Senior Company invites you to get closer to Shakespeare and experience “Hamlet” on the go. In this roving production, audience members will follow the actors throughout the rooms, halls, and grounds of the building, which stands in for much more than a room in the castle. Here NEYT actors will perform the most powerful and dynamic moments of this famous story of treachery, unrequited love, and madness. Performances are Thursday through...
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