Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Last week for Merry Mulch pickups BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Union High School Music Department's Merry Mulch program is in its final week. This program offers Christmas tree collection to Brattleboro residents who request it. Now in its 22nd year, Merry Mulch is endorsed by the Vermont Department of Agriculture as well as the New Hampshire/Vermont Christmas Tree Association. For a $10 donation, members of the band and chorus will transport undecorated trees from homes to a community garden in...
The Commons' recent report about AT&T's efforts to woo the good people of Putney was especially revealing by the AT&T representative's caveat that “the town's permission for the application and its protest, if any is lodged would have little apparent weight in the state's decision.” As Newfane learned, regardless of what the public might want, AT&T will trust its union-busting, anti-democratic law firm, Downs Rachlin Martin, to do the legwork to ensure that the Public Service Board grants permission without...
Four short films by Maya Deren, the Ukrainian-born artist and writer whose work is largely credited with launching the avant-garde cinema movement in America, will be shown at Epsilon Spires on the evening of Saturday, July 9. A live soundtrack will be performed by musician Rob Schwimmer on the piano, theremin, and a touch-sensitive synthesizer called the Haken Continuum. Deren was born in Kyiv in 1917 and fled with her family five years later to escape anti-semitic violence during the...
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