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Second-grader at Green Street School to get soft on a critical academic matter
By
Annabelle Kriger Thies
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 — Issue 260

BRATTLEBORO — Our class tissues are not very comfortable. They hurt our noses very badly. We would like some softer tissues, please.

These tissues make our noses chapped, but I'm grateful we have tissues for our class. They don't make my nose so runny, but they feel like sandpaper, and our noses get red when we use them.

We would be so so very, very grateful for new soft, fluffy, and comfy ones that don't make our noses hurt.

I am not trying to complain - nobody is - but softer, please.

Again, we would be so grateful for new ones.

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We have a well-founded fear based on firsthand experience

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Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...

‘Tropes and lies’

By
Eileen Hayes Arama

WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...

Victimizing a merchant over poorly chosen words

By
Phillip Macracken

BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...

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