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Voices

Multiple deaths, inconsistent justice

By
Susan Aldridge
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 — Issue 514

BRATTLEBORO — A Vermont Superior Court found Steven Bourgoin guilty of second-degree murder for killing five teenagers in an accident he caused by driving the wrong way on Interstate 89.

Why has President Trump not been charged with second-degree murder in the matter of five immigrant children whose deaths were caused or exacerbated by his policies on immigration?

Apparently, six immigrant children have now died in detention.

Perhaps Trump also would use a defense of insanity.

Voices

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

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BRATTLEBORO-After a varied teaching career of 33 years, Alice Charkes, language teacher, is retiring on June 14. Since 2007 she has taught French to all grades at Green Street School. "It's important to understand the pulse of whom you're teaching," she said. "You have to know who the American kid is in the 2020s. My approach is to teach kids stuff that they can access and use, or that relates to them. It has to be interesting and immediate and...

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Art of Simi Berman on display at West Village Meeting House

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 — Issue 587

The work of artist Simi Berman will be on exhibit at the West Village Meeting House (All Souls Church), 29 South St., through December. Berman says that over the past few months, she has grown interested “in working on a small scale in watercolor, gouache, and oil pastel.” The paintings are “non-figurative,” she says, allowing individual viewers to make their own “ever-changing discoveries.” A reception at the meeting house takes place on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m.

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