After reading Pat Sheehan's letter regarding her uterus and my testicles, here's my response to Pat and all the other pro-aborts out there: Smile! Your moms chose life!
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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The Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual spring Legislative Breakfast on March 15 - but minus the bacon and eggs, as COVID-19 turned the ritual update on happenings in Montpelier into a virtual affair. The morning started with some light trash talking between Rep. Mike Mrowicki and Sen. Jeanette White as the two Putney Democrats traded barbs on whose chamber worked harder. Ten Windham County lawmakers outlined bills they're working on that might interest local businesses, on such...
Something extraordinary is about to happen in Brattleboro this summer, and you should know about it. Tundi Productions - a musical-theatrical troupe founded by two Brattleborians, soprano Jenna Rae and conductor Hugh Keelan - will present its second Wagner in Vermont Festival this August at the Latchis Theatre, centered around two performances each of the operas Das Rheingold and Die Walküre. As a longtime Wagner fanatic and as an admirer of these audacious artists, I'm very excited. And as a...
I urge you to vote in the Vermont primaries. There is currently so much political angst in our country. It feels cheap to just say vote, but it is a concrete action step with clear results. Specifically, I am urging you to vote for Michelle Bos-Lun for Windham-3 representative (Westminster, Rockingham, and Brookline). I have known Michelle since 2004, when I traveled as a participant in the first Compass School global connections program that she led to India when I...
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