WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
Meg Mott, Ph.D. is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself...
Ross Momaney (rmm-art.com) is a visual artist and arts educator. By blending these roles, he...
Michelle Bos-Lun and Richard Nelson are state representatives who sit across the table from each...
Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and...
Taking on two well-established senators in your first race for public office might seem daunting, but Wayne Vernon Estey doesn't seem overly concerned. Estey is running in the Aug. 14 Democratic Primary against Windham County incumbents Jeanette White of Putney and Becca Balint of Brattleboro. This is Estey's first run for public office. He is 64, and a native of East Hartford, Conn. He previously worked as a senior economist for the state of Connecticut, as the lead attorney for...
Are we a democracy? I am afraid that it doesn't look that way, based upon what has happened over the years around Act 46. We just witnessed the representatives in the House of Representatives (the People's House) vote against a delay in forcing mergers. They voted to force merger on school districts that have voted overwhelmingly not to merge. By the way, all but one of our Windham County legislators voted for a delay, backing our citizens who voted against...
PUTNEY-Composer-in-Residence Jörg Widmann returns to Yellow Barn for the final week of this year's summer music festival in Putney. Performances take place in the Big Barn nightly at 7:30 p.m., and 12:30 p.m. for a Saturday matinee. At the center of Widmann's residency are his Beethoven Studies, a five-part string quartet cycle. "I'm very interested in a dialogue," said Widmann in a news release, "but not in a nostalgic way, looking back and saying, well, it was so nice in...
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