BRATTLEBORO — I hope we can encourage Opal Robinson to get back into her writing or her art - it is therapeutic.
My hope is that the bullying in the local schools will somehow be stopped.
So glad she's home safe. Good luck to her and the family.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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SAXTONS RIVER-The Rockingham Free Public Library, in collaboration with Main Street Arts, invites the community to an evening of mystery and murder with a production of Murder by the Book, a play written by Louise Teasdale and sponsored by mystery author Louise Penny. Performances will be Friday and Saturday, Jan. 17 and 18, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. at Main Street Arts in Saxtons River. The town of Two Spruce is about to lose their...
Heidi Mario is an artist. BRATTLEBORO-Call this "A Tale of Two Shoe Stores." There has been a great deal of discussion lately regarding the difficulties and challenges facing the brick-and-mortar retail businesses in our community, whether it be rising rents, the cheapness and convenience of ordering online, or the behavior of people downtown. One has only to observe the empty storefronts to be aware that times are tough for these, our friends and neighbors. I have felt fortunate to have...
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