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...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Good day to you, southern Vermonters! This early spring has been more like late winter, and that trend continues through the end of this week, unfortunately. For skiers, this has been a wonderful season to be sure, but for the rest of us, it's been a slog. There is at least some short-term light at the end of the tunnel, and the weekend into early next week is looking pleasant, calm, and milder. However, the Wednesday night through Friday period...
Main Street Arts (MSA) will offer a Creative Aging program beginning in February for seniors in the Greater Rockingham area. There will be three sessions featuring diverse artistic opportunities taught in-person by local teachers. The first session, from Tuesday, Feb. 6, to March 26, will include "An Expressive Arts Exploration" with Susan-Marie Beauchemin, from 10 a.m. to noon, and "Make a Family Heirloom" with Annabelini Questifari, from 1 to 3 p.m. There will be an optional lunch from noon to...
In early March, bare ground showed through patches of snow. February days were too warm, with a number of snowstorms ending with rain here in the Connecticut River valley. More recently, Nor'easters have redeemed the season to some extent. As an avid Nordic skier I welcome a bit more winter, but lament the lack of its reliability, becoming reliably jumbled and erratic. Swings of temperature are now the norm. This year, I missed the quiet and calm of a deep...
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