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Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
Sarah Copeland Hanzas is Vermont's Secretary of State. Prior to her election, she served for...
BRATTLEBORO-Mollie S. Burke has represented District 8 for 16 years. She is a trusted and...
BELLOWS FALLS-All registered voters of Windham-3 - that includes Rockingham, Westminster, and Brookline - please...
WESTMINSTER-My friend Ann Smith and I attended Casey Cota's meeting on the Affordable Heat Act...
“I just can't imagine that tomorrow I'm waking up and not coming to work,” Vlasta Popelka said to the friends and well-wishers at Brattleboro Community Television's annual meeting. In this time of COVID-19, the longtime operations manager's retirement party happened over videoconference. While the coronavirus might have kept people apart, it could not stop Popelka from receiving the deep, heartfelt gratitude for her 18 years of service to the local public-access television station. Colleagues formally bid her bon voyage with...
When Albert Camus published his allegorical story The Plague in 1947 about a deadly contagion sweeping the French city of Oran in 1849, he raised a number of questions about the nature of the human condition. “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends,” one of his characters says. Later, Camus reflects that “a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour [...] when all one craves for is...
Theatre Adventure, a nonprofit organization that provides year-round expressive arts programming for people with disabilities in a nurturing and accepting environment, will present its original musical, The Costume Shop, in-person and online on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 9 and 10, at 10:30 a.m.; and Friday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m. at the West Village Meeting House, 29 South Street. According to organizers, The Costume Shop “takes place in a small sleepy village called Navin. The arrival of a costumer and...
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