BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Family Services staff of the Vermont Department for Children and Families deeply appreciates our Agency of Human Services colleagues and community partners who have provided support to us following the loss of our colleague Lara Sobel.
Your messages of condolence and thoughtful gestures have been comforting during this difficult time.
We are grateful to all those who have shown us such support and to be part of such a caring community.
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Libby Bennett balanced on a stair stage left in the Latchis' main theater. Hunched over her calculator, the development director for Groundworks Collaborative counted the small piles of cash and checks that surrounded her. Individual donors gave more than $3,000 in cash, checks, and online donations for the eighth annual “Load the Latchis” food drive. Bennett double-checked the numbers. She smiled. “This is the most we've received in cash donations during my tenure,” Bennett said. Volunteers scooted and wove across...
In the humid air, people line up along the streets, solemnly holding up the blue, white, and red flag, a tribute to their fallen idol. An ocean away, people crowd the roads, cheering, drinking, and shooting off red, white, and blue firecrackers, celebrating the demise of that very same ruler. Such vastly different reactions to the death of a leader call into question the legacy he leaves behind. How will people remember him? As a brutal tyrant who destroyed the...
Affinities, a series of assemblages by Bonnie Mennell, is on exhibit until Saturday, May 20, at the Putney Public Library, 55 Main St. Mennell's exhibition includes disparate elements: found objects, recombinations of natural forms enhanced with color and texture, and handmade paper embedded with corn husks and mica, seaweed, shells, and paper birch bark. “Objects find me,” Mennell said in a news release. “Their beauty, form, textures, and colors draw me to them. I collect them, asking permission and giving...
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