BRATTLEBORO — Compassionate Brattleboro endorses, in the interest of compassion, Brattleboro Common Sense's efforts to articulate the Brattleboro area community's longing for, and commitment to, a world that is healthy, fair, and caring for all.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Republican Gov. Phil Scott won his second term in convincing fashion on Tuesday night. Scott, 60, first elected to the post in 2016, defeated Christine Hallquist, a 62-year-old Democrat from Hyde Park. Scott got 55 percent of the vote to Hallquist's 40 percent. Hallquist, the former CEO of the Vermont Electric Co-op, was seeking to become the first transgender gubernatorial candidate to be elected governor in the United States. But she was going up against a long history of Vermont...
Artist Brent Birnbaum's new body of work will be on view at Epsilon Spires with a socially-distanced opening reception on Friday, Sept. 18 and by appointment until Friday, Nov. 6. Birnbaum's latest series of assemblages is composed of board games that the artist systematically deconstructed into hundreds of smaller “spaces,” which he then recombined in collage. He began by cutting the pathways and territories out from existing games to break the set logic of the boards and then created the...
While attending a recent concert at Next Stage, I had a flashback to the wonderful outdoor concert series events over the summer. At one performance at the Putney Inn field on an early summer's day, I realized how much I missed live music after the long Covid winter and how being with other people was part of the experience. It was conducive to families as well as single people, and everyone could feel the joy we shared. People danced! They...
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