BRATTLEBORO — RE: “The artisan-cheese revolution” [Food & Drink, June 5]:
There is little in life that can't be helped by cheese.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Alex Gyori, general manager, sits at a table in the Brattleboro Food Co-op's cafeteria, his hands folded, voice clear but quiet. The Co-op has started 2013 with the announcement that it is laying off 11 employees, cutting an estimated 100 hours for other employees, and cutting expenses. Managers also agreed to take a 3 percent pay cut. “We agonized for several weeks how we were going to get expenses to meet revenues,” Gyori said. “The last thing we wanted to...
MARLBORO-The penultimate weekend of the 2024 Marlboro Music Festival offers a full slate of open rehearsals and three essential concert programs, with 25 resident artists performing masterpieces and rarely heard works. On Friday, Aug. 2, at 8 p.m., Marlboro Music gives back to the local community with its annual town benefit concert in Persons Auditorium. All proceeds from this performance support Marlboro town organizations. Audiences for the Saturday and Sunday concerts will hear co-Artistic Director Mitsuko Uchida performing Schubert's setting...
Laura Sibilia and the wireless tech industry tout the increased convenience of “expanded broadband” (read 5G) while neglecting to inform us all of the radioactive threat to our environment of 5G, which puts all life in danger of sickness and eventual death. Radioactivity kills. 5G is used by the military as a weapon. Why would U.S. politicians and business people agree to put military strength radioactivity and infrastructure in our neighborhoods? Insanity? Perhaps. Greed? Definitely! We have been misinformed about...
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