Voices
Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
Hello and good day to you, fine citizens of southeastern Vermont! We've got a quiet weather week on the way in southeastern Vermont, that may end in some icing and rain by Tuesday into early Wednesday as we head toward the end of February. For Wednesday, we'll see a blustery day blow through the region under mostly sunny skies as we cool down. Thursday and Friday will feature the core of our current cold shot, with continued fair weather as...
Ann Braden Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she wanted to be remembered as someone “who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has.” I wonder if it's possible to cry all the way until election day. To cry while we fight for every inch of justice there is. We may think...
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Artistic Director Seth Knopp leads an open discussion of György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments, together with the Yellow Barn musicians who performed the song cycle last summer. Kurtág's work is comprised of 40 fragments, ranging from less than 20 seconds to more than four minutes, all of which are excerpts from Franz Kafka's diaries, letters, and notebooks that together express something both in themselves and as part of a larger context. Soprano Tony Arnold and violinist Mark...
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