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.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
Two years after facing tough questions about the diversity of its municipal workforce and procedures in recruitment, and after almost a year of searching, the town has hired its first human resources director. Town Manager Peter Elwell told board members at the May 7 Selectboard meeting that Sally Nix will begin work on June 17. He also described the process of hiring Nix, painting a portrait of a long journey that took him, his colleagues in the Municipal Center, and...
The recent Just So Stories event at Naulakha, Rudyard Kipling's home, was a phenomenal success, more so than any prior year. This event has been offered to area elementary schools for the past 15 years and at the conclusion of the week set aside for the kids, an evening is planned for 25-30 adults. Generally it sells out, but not always. Jackson Gillman does an outstanding job of portraying Rudyard Kipling and an even more superlative job portraying the elephant...
Palaver Strings' Beehive Chamber Series returns to the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) Friday, Nov. 10, with a program entitled "Homeland." The 7 p.m. concert will explore folk-inspired music by diverse composers paying homage to their homelands: Carlos Guastavino (Argentina), Violetta Parra (Chile), Leoš Janáček (Czech Republic), and Béla Bártok (Hungary). Their works explore the essence of their cultural-political landscape, using folk material from everyday life. The musical journey concludes with Brahms' Trio in A minor, which he composed after visiting...
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