BRATTLEBORO — A request for State Rep. Mike Hebert and the health-care committee:
Please support any proposition to remove the religious exemption from vaccinations and support the medical and scientific community's consensus that vaccine exemptions should only be granted to children for medical reasons, not parental ignorance.
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Patty Carpenter and Verandah Porche will perform at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge St., on Sunday, May 19. Special guest Jon Weeks will sit in on wind instruments and percussion, and Wheeler Laird will join on guitar for one or two songs. Doors open at 3 p.m., and the show starts at 4. Carpenter and Porche are lifelong friends and collaborators and will play some of the songs they've written since the Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band's Come Over CD, which...
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