BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for having ears for this story, and the wherewithal to share it with us all.
We are headed into what seems to be a hard winter in a land of hard winters. We have to talk about the homeless in our midst.
And do something.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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