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Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
DOVER-Even though she lost her courageous challenge to become speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives for the new biennium, Rep. Laura Sibilia, I-Dover, says she is glad she ran. "It really was necessary," Sibilia said. "It was clear to us that the situation on the ground was such that something had to change. And I absolutely am certain that, as a result of me running, I already see changes that are happening. And I'm happy for that." In a...
Sarasa Ensemble presents "Anónimo from Amazonia: Bolivian Mission Baroque," Friday, March 8, at 7 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC). Organizers bill it as "a sunny program of secular and sacred Baroque music from the Missions of Bolivia, with an undeniable impulse from the folk element of its indigenous people." Featured performers are Carley DeFranco, soprano; Jesse Irons, Rebecca Nelson, violins; Jennifer Morsches, cello; William Simms, Baroque guitar/theorbo; and John McKean, organ. The Sarasa Ensemble is a collective group...
NEWFANE-I have long refrained from responding to diatribes in opinion columns, but I cannot contain myself this time. This piece both angered and saddened me. I am sad that we seem unable to have differing views without nasty, hostile, name calling that only serves to gin up more division. When you call people "non-sentient beings," "monsters," and say they are members of "a cult," you eliminate any chance for constructive dialogue. It breaks my heart that so many of our...
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