Brattleboro is getting a shining Starr who has led, inspired, and ignited Building Brighter Futures for Broome, an agency that offers early childhood literacy strategies and supports!
Thank you, Starr LaTronica, for sharing your gifts and passion!
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It's not every day that you hear of something that's still going strong after 100 years. But this summer, the Green Mountain Camp for Girls is celebrating its 100th year with reunions, shared memories, singing, feasting, dancing, sports, and yes, s'mores. It is also mounting a Centennial Campaign to raise $100,000 for capital improvements. The camp seems to inspire the girls who go there. “We're helping people recapture a very good time in their lives,” said current camp director, former...
What's up with Harvard's David Keith? He's been exploring the idea of taking “chemtrails” from the realm of conspiracy theory to cloudy reality, using aircraft to pump sulfates into the upper atmosphere (solar radiation management) - effectively shutting off all our solar panels. This, in order to fight “global warming.” Is he working for the oil companies? Coal and oil companies are in the business of providing heat, for which I am extraordinarily grateful much of the year, living as...
The Brattleboro Music Center and the Latchis Theatre present the Windham Orchestra's performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Four performances are scheduled: Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, March 21, at 2 p.m.; Friday, March 27, at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, March 29, at 2 p.m. Performances will feature well-known local voices in minor and major roles, as well as performers from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Albany, N.Y., and New York City. “The Magic Flute is about quarrels and reconciliation,
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