BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
When Christopher Grotke and Lise LePage returned to Brattleboro from a journalism conference in Washington, D.C. last October, the proprietors of iBrattleboro.com found a deputy waiting for them with a libel lawsuit. “Our first reaction was that we looked at it and said, 'What did we do? We're not bad people? Or are we?'” said Grotke, recalling the couple's initial shock. Grotke and LePage founded iBrattleboro in February 2003 through their Web development business, MuseArts, Inc. The growing Web site...
The Brattleboro Concert Choir opens the New Year with two concerts exploring “The Fall and The Rise: Songs of Redemption,” presenting a redemption story in two parts: Adam's Lament by Arvo Pärt is “The Fall,” and Dreamweaver by Ola Gjeilo is “The Rise.” The concerts are scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 18, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 19, at 3 p.m., at the Latchis Theatre on Main Street. Estonian composer Arvo Pärt composed Adam's Lament in 2009. The piece is...
It was once the most affluent country in Latin America. The average person owned a car, and even those living in the poor outskirts of its major cities had a refrigerator, a gas stove, and a television set - things then considered luxuries - even when they did not always have access to running water. I lived in Venezuela with my parents and sisters from 1954 to 1964. Exiled from my native Bolivia after a revolution, arriving in the capital...
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