BRATTLEBORO — It's a sad day when a writer loses a job. I hope Pat Smith and Mike Fahar find meaningful work that will continue to contribute to their community.
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...
A group of Leland & Gray High School students will spend the spring semester exploring food systems and culture here at home, then travel south to several Gulf Coast states, as well as Vietnam and France, to study how food is grown, produced, distributed, prepared, and consumed. To raise money and help pay the estimated $140,000 needed for the 15 students and three teachers expected to participate, the group prepared and served a Community Dinner in Town Hall on Nov.
On Saturday, May 11, opera fans will have a rare opportunity to experience a Met: Live in HD performance of Francis Poulenc's The Dialogues of the Carmelites, at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St., at noon. The Dialogues was created in 1955 and is based on historical fact. “Today, 40 individuals had their heads cut off, including 16 Carmelite nuns from Compiègne.” This statement, dated July 17, 1794, comes from the diary of 69-year-old Celestin Guittard de Floriban, an avid...
Bert Picard is an activist, having retired as a Teamster truck driver who has organized with various unions and a workers' center over the decades. GUILFORD-So the coup has happened. The form of government built under Franklin Delano Roosevelt is finally being dismantled. It was a long time coming. The "Reagan revolution" was a big step. Bill Clinton collaborated. And so it went. Biden could be said to have tried weakly to stop the train, but too late. But what...
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