RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A lovely tribute to a dear friend. Throughout high school Roger carried that camera slung around his neck on a strap. He masterfully captured the precious moments of our everyday lives and his images caught the magic in us all. He will be missed.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
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BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
At the Westminster Community Schools Board meeting on Jan. 6, the budget subcommittee presented two versions of a budget for fiscal year 2016. One continues funding the Westminster West School and one does not. The school board elected to present, at the Westminster Town Meeting in March, the version that keeps the West School open. Residents will voice their opinion by a floor vote. Closing the Westminster West School due to low enrollment was discussed in 2011 and again in...
On the surface, I seem an unlikely candidate to write about being happy. I am often sad and sometimes without an easily identifiable cause. I sigh a lot and have been known to say to God on many occasions, “Lord, it is so hard being human.” I know he knows what I am talking about, even though my life experience is like a banquet in comparison to so much of the real human suffering we hear about in the world.
Two 11th-graders from Leland & Gray Union High School, Anthony Carona and Kelsey Hescock, are co-artists for the month of April at the Wardsboro Public Library. Both are Wardsboro residents. Carona started drawing dinosaurs at the age of three. In middle school, influenced by Japanese animation, he adapted his drawings to computers. Now he hand-draws and hand-inks his artwork, then scans and colors it with Adobe Illustrator, which he uses to animate it as well. Carona designed costumes for the...
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