A great project, and one I am happy and honored to be involved in.
Derrik Jordan has found a new way to get visionary musicians' work seen and heard. He is a consummate host who always seems to ask the right questions.
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...
Administrative Assistant Shannon Meckle characterized this year's meeting as “smooth and uneventful.” Newfane resident Laurie Merrigan agreed. “It was the most sedate and polite town meeting I've been to,” she said. Merrigan said she has been attending the annual meeting “since I was old enough to vote.” Most articles passed without amendments, with a few notable exceptions. Three articles - numbers 10, 11, and 12 - were defeated. These asked voters to decide whether the terms for town clerk, treasurer,
On Saturday, July 23, the sound artists Whitney Johnson, who performs as Matchess, and Claire Rousay will play live in the sanctuary of the multimedia arts venue Epsilon Spires in downtown Brattleboro. Both Rousay and Johnson explore what a news release describes as “sounds on the margins of our consciousness.” For Rousay, this involves creating sound collages from the mundane sonic components of our daily lives, like the flick of a lighter or the chime of a text message, while...
(1)Many school systems in the United States begin their instruction of what is called the modern civil rights movement with the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. A few will go back as far as the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case in order to establish an identity and setting for the modern civil rights movement. Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but...
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