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...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) and the Vernon School District (VSD) are asking community members to consider running for open seats on those school boards "to make a meaningful impact on local education." The WSESD Board is comprised of 10 members from Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, and Putney, with each board member governing the schools in all four towns. The VSD Board is comprised of five members and governs the Vernon School. There are open seats on both WSESD and...
Guitarist Glenn Jones, a friend and musical protégé of folk guitar hero John Fahey, will perform at the downtown Brattleboro art space Epsilon Spires on Thursday, April 14, at 8 p.m. The event will also feature Vic Rawlings, a musician, documentary filmmaker, and instrument-builder based in Western Massachusetts. “Jones is a master of the guitar style known as 'American Primitive,'” a news release states, “a term coined by Fahey to describe an intricate fingerpicking style typical of country blues and...
Lingchi, also known as “the death of a thousand cuts,” was a method of public execution in China that involved cutting off pieces of a person's body until he or she died. Banned in 1905, this drastic punishment first became a metaphor and then came to rest in the English language as a cliché. Which is why it jumped into my mind on the day my 93-year-old mother, a former dancer who lives alone in a tiny independent living complex...
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