BRATTLEBORO — In her March 2 article (“Not in their backyard after all”), Olga Peters did a careful job of describing the outcome of our South Main Street project.
However, we would like to make one clarification: our losses would indeed have been about $21,000, but, thanks to Stevens & Associates' willingness to share the loss, the cost to us is $14,798.
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Most people think preparing for Christmas means shopping for presents. Jadi Flynn and Megan Walker have their sights set on something else: 14 pounds of coffee, 140 pounds of pancake mix, 270 pounds of eggs, 1,920 hash browns, and 3,200 sausage links. Flynn and Walker are the granddaughter and great-granddaughter, respectively, of Charlie Slate, the local man who started the town's free annual Christmas Breakfast. His family and friends are ready to continue the tradition for hundreds of diners and...
My husband, Richard Gottlieb, died Feb. 15, 2012 from multiple myeloma, with a secondary (more devastating) soft-tissues disease caused by that bone cancer: amyloidosis, which affected his swallowing mechanism and his heart. The damage to his heart proved fatal when his heart stopped on that day after Valentine's Day. When it was announced that strontium-90 was found in the wells at the Vermont Yankee plant, I did some research and found that this calcium-seeking toxin gets into the ground and...
Main Street Arts will offer Songs for a Winter's Eve, its annual musical gift to the community, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 16 and 17 at 7 p.m., and a 3 p.m. matinee Saturday. The 14-voice adult chorus will offer songs of the season, including “How Like a Winter,” “An Evening in December,” and Irving Berlin's “White Christmas.” The children's chorus will add its own magical touch to the program with seasonal songs from American, Sephardic, and Israeli traditions. The program...
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