Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
It's September 7 and day two for Brattleboro's new assistant fire chief, Leonard “Lennie” Howard III. He has organized his new office, but the candy bowl inherited from outgoing Assistant Chief Peter Lynch, Howard admits, is empty. “I still need to get to the grocery store,” Howard says with a grin. The Selectboard announced Howard's promotion last month. Town Clerk Annette Cappy officially swore him into office during the Selectboard's Sept. 6 meeting. Howard's predecessor, Lynch, left the department last...
It is important that capable women step up if we are ever going to change the miasma of our present political culture. (1)From the four years we served together on the House Appropriations Committee I know firsthand how capable Kitty Toll is. Not only is she adept at adding and subtracting very large numbers, she has a keen understanding in how those numbers matter in people's everyday lives, in the economic health of our state, and in the well-being of...
The Brattleboro Concert Choir, directed by Susan Dedell, present Paul Winter's “Missa Gaia/Earth Mass” on Saturday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, May 18, at 4 p.m. Both concerts, at Centre Congregational Church in downtown Brattleboro, are layered with the recorded voices of wolves, loons, whales, and harp seals in interconnected harmony in this joyful, rhythmic, and contemporary mass for the Earth. Dedell writes that “Missa Gaia” originated when the dean of the Cathedral of St. John the...
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