DUMMERSTON — Randolph Holhut writes about sports with remarkable precision and imagination.
We also appreciate the balanced tone of his Sports Roundup columns, which are never biased toward a particular team.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
There's a new therapist in town, but she doesn't take your insurance and you might not want her on the furniture. But she does do house calls. Her name is Frankie and she's a three-year-old standard poodle recently certified by the Alliance of Therapy Dogs. Frankie's owner, Janet Goldstein, is the executive director of the Brattleboro Pastoral Counseling Center, a nonprofit organization that offers low-cost, non-sectarian counseling from licensed providers. They serve individuals 14 and up, families, and couples who...
The New England Youth Theatre's Senior Company takes on a contemporary work this month: “Middletown” by Will Eno. Inspired by, and sometimes parodying, Thornton Wilder's “Our Town,” the show explores the intersections of the lives of small town residents and the strange beauty of life. In a press release, NEYT says Eno explores the moments that make up “this great and often unexplored middle” between the “sort of unknowable events of birth and death.” Director Micheal Trzos, a recent theater...
Free speech matters. Free speech matters so very much, that for generations, it has been at the core of both our collective values and our legal system. For many of us, the right to freedom of speech is a revered covenant. Sadly, this is not universal. On Sunday, Sept. 13, I was rudely reminded that for some, their fears lead to cowardly and clandestine efforts to silence the voices of others. Their fear and anger is strong enough that they...
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