PUTNEY — Retired Brattleboro Police Department Captain Mark Carignan's premier novel Out from Under: George V. Higgins would have admired it.
If you know who he was, that's my review.
If you don't, read both.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Arson investigators from the Vermont State Police are asking for help from the public in finding the culprit behind a series of suspicious fires in Windham County over the past few weeks. Detective Sgt. Matthew Hill of the State Police's Fire and Explosion Investigation Unit (FEIU) said in a news release that his unit is working with the Putney and Marlboro fire departments in an investigation of six fires that have taken place within Windham County since Oct. 2: •
The Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Series features Musicians from Marlboro on Monday, Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. This is the first of the group's three tour programs this season and features nine outstanding musicians performing works from three centuries. They include Lauren Pearl, soprano; Abigail Fayette, Alina Kobialka, Anna Lee, and Scott St. John, violin; Kei Tojo and Sharon Wei, viola; and Tony Rymer and Judith Serkin, cello. The program includes Respighi's “Il Tramonto”; Brahms' Quartet in B flat major,
These are difficult days for the rule of democracy, openness, fairness, and just plain decency. Every day it seems the bar is lowered with no end in sight. This can make us feel powerless, at least at effecting positive change at the world or national level. Yet we have the important power in our hands to safeguard our values close to home, in our local communities, and that is where we can start. I truly hope we in Newfane will...
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