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It's nice to see the attention paid to the students and the respect to the teacher. We need more of this! Go Bernie!
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
When Peter Galbraith heard that Russia had invaded neighboring Ukraine last winter, the former U.S. ambassador and United Nations envoy figured the headlines would melt by spring. “The expectation on the part of many Western analysts - I have to say myself included - was that the Russians would prevail in a quick victory,” the Townshend resident said. Nearly a year later, Galbraith recently returned from a trip to the scene of Ukraine's surprisingly tenacious resistance. “Wars very rarely go...
There is a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail set in the days of the Black Plague. Eric Idle moves through a village calling, “Bring out your dead!” John Cleese appears, a body slung over his shoulder. As he negotiates offloading the corpse to Idle, the body interrupts: “I'm not dead!” Cleese replies, “Well, he will be soon.” We're used to people declaring our rural economies dead or dying. They tell us that manufacturing is gone. That young...
The 2023 Marlboro Music Festival invites audiences to Potash Hill for the first concerts of the season and free open rehearsals in Persons Auditorium. From among the more than 75 pieces that were rehearsed last week, Marlboro artists have chosen six fascinating works to share, from Mozart and Haydn string quartets to Janáček's Mládí for woodwind sextet. The program on Saturday, July 15, at 8:30 p.m., also offers a rare opportunity to hear Marlboro's Artistic Directors Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan...
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