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...
On May 30, Dalem's Chalet celebrates its 50th anniversary with a special dinner featuring European continental cuisine. The Alpine-styled restaurant, banquet hall, and inn, is tucked among the wooded hills of West Brattleboro, just behind the First Congregational Church. Ursula Dalem, the establishment's proprietor, said she has lived in Brattleboro for 58 years. What brought Dalem - born Ursula Golda -ۥ from her childhood home in eastern Germany to southeastern Vermont was the family of Oskar Dalem, her future husband.
-Susan McClure, executive director of the Vermont Arts Council (VAC), is solid in her reassurances for those working in arts and culture in the state. Joining her at a Dec. 5 webinar, Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, executive director of the Vermont Humanities Council (VHC) also made clear that what's known for sure is the unknown, given changes on the horizon at the federal level and the priorities of the incoming Trump administration. "Our biggest message to you is keep at it,
A lovely relationship. A heartwarming account. Reading it, it struck me that we do grandparenting better now than when I was a child. Grandparents then were like parents then: relations with younger generations were more formal, roles and prerogatives more distinct. Parents shared life with their children less intimately. And grandparents, though generally loving and geographically closer, were more remote. Now it is different. I'm tuned in to my grandchildren's lives in a way my grandparents weren't. We relate more...
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