BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for painting a quick sketch of Charles Monette, who, after 19 years, is once again presenting his artistic work on the stage. I look forward to seeing “Becoming van Gogh.”
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...
Good day to you, residents of the windy hamlets in southeastern Vermont! The Spring of 2019 continues to bring varying weather conditions, and the next seven days will be no different. We'll enjoy a sunny Wednesday, with clouds building Wednesday night. Two rounds of showers with a warm frontal passage bring wet weather for Thursday morning and again in the evening. A strong low pressure system will track to our west and slow its forward speed, resulting in heavier rains...
Immanuel Retreat Center, 12 Church St., will offer a drawing workshop Feb. 11 and a course beginning Feb. 15 in Celtic knotwork - the interlacing knotwork artwork created by early Celtic monks in such illuminated manuscripts as the Book of Kells and the Lindesfarne Gospels. The workshop is an introduction and the course will cover the introductory material but quickly move into more advanced patterns and techniques. Celtic knotwork patterns depicting birds and animals, trees and other plants, people, and...
Since the Iranian-sponsored Hamas devastation wrought on Oct. 7 - a Jewish Sabbath Day as well as what should have been the joyous holiday of Simchat Torah - I have struggled to share the horror and sadness I feel. But I know when people don't respond to unjust and cruel behavior, they are complicit. To those who call for peace and harmony for all people, without going back to Biblical times, I want to remind you who the people of...
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