ATHENS — RE: “Something missing in our news” [Viewpoint, Aug. 15]:
There is something about sitting down with a newspaper. Pulling the sections apart and piling them in order to be read. Rustling the paper and reading about foreign affairs or local news over a cup of tea.
I may have my websites in which I seek out news, but I still buy newspapers. There is just something tangible about holding the news in your hands.
There is nothing like it and never will be.
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A sunny afternoon, a hot patch of asphalt, and the Ramones blasting from a boom box on a nearby picnic table. This was the scene for the first day of summer last Friday for the fourth annual Brattleboro Go Skateboarding Day at the Crowell Lot. It was a day where about two dozen local riders, ranging in age from pre-teen to early 30s, transformed the basketball court into a skatepark – complete with rails, ramps, and boxes. Go Skateboarding Day,
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BRATTLEBORO-Microdosing, writes author Lauren Alderfer, is not a pill to be taken like an aspirin to get rid of a headache. Instead, she said, the practice "offers the possibility to connect and live in a greater presence of being. [It] supports overall health and well-being and in so doing the headache may very well disappear." According to Peter Grinspoon of Harvard Health Publishing, microdosing "involves taking a fraction of a regular dose" of psychedelic substances such as LSD or psilocybin,
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