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Focus on Act 46
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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...
Brattleboro Area Hospice (BAH) has announced the establishment of the Friends of Cicely Saunders, a legacy program named after the British nurse who founded the hospice and palliative care movements. With the encouragement of several people who have named BAH as a beneficiary in their wills, organization leadership has decided to create this avenue for those who want to support the dying, their families, and those grieving. Muriel Wolf is a legacy friend who has made a bequest to BAH.
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts presents a concert of original compositions in the Arabic maqam tradition, featuring composer and kanun player Firas Zreik, on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. Zreik has "transformed global perception of the kanun [a large zither]. His treatment of the instrument preserves its identity as a vital part of the maqam tradition, and stretches its potential as a cultural chameleon, enhancing a range of fresh, evolving sounds," according to the artist's website. The Palestine-born New Yorker uses...
First there are no leaves, then there are, and so April rolls into May - each year the same, each year a surprise. I remember the same shock of recognition, a presentiment of immeasurable intimacy and eventual physical distance, when I saw the first series of sonograms of my daughter, still in utero: She seemed to be waving to me, her hand as tender and tremulous as a new leaf; in the next shot, she had turned away and was...
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