BRATTLEBORO — Another excellent column by Joyce Marcel [“Kunin calls for a truce in the war on women,” April 25].
One minor correction: There are three women justices on the Supreme Court, not two. (We need them all, and more.)
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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As the state transfers to new education standards and testing, the Brattleboro Town School Board and administration held their second forum on Nov. 19 to prepare the community. A small audience attended the evening forum at Academy School as presenters tried to dispel a sense that the Common Core is another federally mandated standardized test that would pigeonhole young students. Instead, presenters said, Common Core is a set of goals and standards. Most of the assessments performed in Brattleboro schools...
Sense and Nonsense, the sixth in the SOLOs series of performances filmed on the Hooker-Dunham stage, airs Friday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m., and will simultaneously stream on YouTube and BCTV. The showing will be followed by an online public after- party with the cast of the co-production between the Hooker-Dunham Theater and the Rock River Players. Sense and Nonsense consists of a series of monologues that take aim at the destructive nonsense of gender stereotypes. • Cyndi Cain Fitzgerald's...
Dave Cohen is an integrative psychotherapist (davecohencounseling.com) specializing in approaches in mind/body modalities and ecopsychology. He also works as a consultant for Go! Vermont, providing free bike consultations for all Vermonters. Cohen's transportation work has been featured in numerous podcasts and the internationally released cargo bike documentary Motherload. He is writing a book, The Biggest Blindspot: Super-Sizing Our Bodies in a More-than-Human World. BRATTLEBORO-When I'm walking around Brattleboro, people often fling a question at me: "Hey, where's your bike?" Many...
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