Congrats to Michael Obuchowski! I wish I could have been there at the Windham County Democrats' Obie Awards. Keep swinging!
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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...
Kevin Quigley already had been planning to travel to Washington, D.C., to participate in a higher-education conference and to talk with Vermont's congressional delegation. But the Marlboro College president said the tone of his meeting with lawmakers changed dramatically after President Donald Trump issued a controversial order on Jan. 27 limiting immigration from primarily Muslim countries. “We had an agenda of things we wanted to talk about, but frankly, with the executive order that happened, that became item No. 1,”
“On My Journey,” the spring concert of the Brattleboro Women's Chorus, will be presented on Mother's Day weekend, May 9 and 10. Under the direction of Becky Graber, local women of a variety of ages will be accompanied by Lisa McCormick on guitar and Cathy Martin on piano. The repertoire includes songs of travel. An arrangement by Susan Brumfield is a combination of two traditional camp songs, “Rise, Oh Fathers, Rise” and “No Time,” that speaks of going home. “Arise...
Having been elected recently to serve on the Brattleboro Selectboard, I'd like to update your readers on one of the concerns that led me to run. With regard to emergency medical services in Brattleboro, I asked: What happened in the process of reaching a new agreement, and what have we learned from it? The response to my question has often been that Selectboard members and the town administration can't talk about it because of the separation agreement reached with the...
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