RE: “Having his back” [News, March 13]:
An amazing write up about amazing people. Keep it coming!
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) will hold its Annual Meeting on Tuesday, March 17, at 7 p.m., in the gymnasium at Brattleboro Union High School, 131 Fairground Rd. Child care will be provided. Warned items for the meeting include election of district officers and a vote to approve the $51,171,300 district school budget for 2020-21. You can vote only if you are present on the floor of the Annual Meeting. To take advantage of child care, email WSESD Board...
As Yellow Barn's Summer Season began its 46th season in Putney, the chamber music school and festival took a moment to look back. In a birthday concert with what Executive Director Catherine Stephan called the “octogenarians” at Yellow Barn, three veteran Yellow Barn faculty members to whom the current season is dedicated - pianists Peter Frankl and Gilbert Kalish and cellist Bonnie Hampton - joined young Yellow Barn artists for a sold-out concert celebrating the classical era of chamber music.
I watched the Iowa caucuses - and the resulting mayhem - with a mixture of curiosity, astonishment, and hope. Despite the sometimes haphazard madness of it all, I found myself buoyed by so many of the participants declaring that, if their candidate did not make the cut, they would absolutely be prepared to vote for whoever did get the candidacy. I was also struck by the camaraderie between so many of those caucusing, from old friends to couples to people...
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