The truck driver person with the “angry stickers” is just exercising his, or her, First Amendment rights on their own truck!
God bless America (my First Amendment right to say, so exercised).
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Gail Golec really digs graves. Just not with a shovel. Golec, a professional archaeologist, told The Commons, “Because I'm a huge nerd, I love going to cemeteries to just walk around, mostly the earlier ones.” “The art, the carvings, are beautiful. I like studying the names and the epitaphs,” she said. Golec has “always been fascinated by cemeteries,” even as a child growing up in North Walpole and Alstead, N.H. “My family are good storytellers and joke-tellers,” she said, “and...
Get the lowdown on Marked Man, the latest novel featuring fictional detective Joe Gunther on Saturday, Oct. 2 at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. Author Archer Mayor will be available to meet and greet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the plaza in front of the library. Copies of his 32nd mystery, will be available for sale and signing from Everyone's Books. In Marked Man, Mayor juggles several plotlines. A year after the death of affluent Nathan Lyon...
I was so proud of my town when I read about its recognition of COVID-19-period unsung heroes. This expression of compassion, this unwillingness to allow such efforts to be taken for granted, is exactly the reason I moved to this town. Bravo, Brattleboro, and special thanks to Compassionate Brattleboro for this, for our monthly compassion stories, and for your efforts to help reduce the heartbreaking divisiveness in our country.
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