PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
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...
BRATTLEBORO-With few contested races around the state, voter turnout was low for many of the Aug. 13 party primaries in Vermont. But not so much in the southeast corner of Windham County, where three hotly contested primaries for House seats drew many voters to the polls on a sun-splashed August day. In Brattleboro, incumbent Rep. Emilie Kornheiser prevailed over a primary challenge, and Ian Goodnow emerged as the party's candidate in the November general election. For Guilford and Vernon, in...
PUTNEY-Noam "Nani" Vazana, one of the few musician/songwriters in the world who writes and composes in the endangered Ladino language, has launched a tour that's landing her in venues large and small around North America and Europe. One of her stops will be Putney, as Next Stage Arts hosts her for a performance this Friday. BBC Radio 3 hails Vazana's as a powerful and soulful voice that "transports you from ancient markets to modern jazz clubs in one breath." Add...
Voting is now taking place for the Nov. 8 election. There are many voices out there who are instilling fear in our citizens by spreading misinformation about elections. I just read a piece by Nancy Gassett - Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in Guilford and Vernon - that used the tactic of instilling this fear, and I am aware of the same views coming from others. I will say that these views are not necessarily those of Republicans...
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