BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro has been fortunate to have Jerry Carbone, a leader and gentleman, at the helm of its library.
Now for his golf game: perhaps a little more time devoted to the game will pick things up a bit.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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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...
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won her first state in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday - and it happened in Vermont. Haley defeated former President Donald Trump by the slimmest of margins in the state, according to the Associated Press, which called the race for her at 10:37 p.m. With 224 of 247 precincts reporting late Tuesday night, she was leading Trump 49.3% to 45.3%, according to the Vermont Secretary of State's Office. Though she prevailed in the...
The pursuit of happiness is rarely linear, nor is it a quest with a final destination we can identify. This theme runs through English playwright Alan Ayckbourn's fast-paced comedy of the well-to-do Stratton family in The Time of My Life, playing at the Actors Theatre Playhouse for nine performances from Sept. 12 through Sept. 28, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Often compared to Noel Coward and Harold Pinter, Ayckbourn has written and produced more than 80 plays over...
I, for one, am unable to support the Act 46 Study Committee's proposal that is being put to the voters on Nov. 7. I recognize that many people have worked hard to develop a plan that they hope is supported in the voting booth. The plan, as most of you know, is for a full merger of the school districts in the four towns in the current supervisory union. The proposal would (1) merge the districts in the three small...
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