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...
Talk with Black farmer Earl Ransom, owner of Rockbottom Farm in Strafford, about farming in Vermont and you know right away his success is unique and underlines a bigger issue that local Windham County farm initiatives for BIPOC people are trying to address. “I was born here and raised here, but the people who seem most alarmed by the fact of me tend to be from not here,” says Ransom. The 48-year-old Ransom, co-owner of Rockbottom Farm with his wife...
The inner life of one of the world's most beloved artists will be explored when Latchis Arts continues its presentations of Exhibition on Screen with I, Claude Monet on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 25 and 26, at 4 p.m., at the Latchis Theatre, 50 Main St. Exhibition on Screen presents compelling documentaries about the world's best-loved art. Typically focused on major exhibitions throughout the world, Exhibition on Screen takes a different tack with I, Claude Monet, disposing of traditional narration...
Seth Walsh was in the sixth grade in the small town of Tehachapi, Calif., when he came out to his mother. She told him she loved him no matter what. But his peers were not so kind. They taunted him to death, literally. Seth hanged himself. He was 13. Billy Lucas, 15, of Greensburg, Ind. also hanged himself after constant slurs against him by classmates. Asher Brown, 13, who lived near Houston, shot himself as a result of school taunting.
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