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 first tangible sign that the Brooks House project is picking up speed came early Tuesday morning when the Harmony Lot underpass was closed to traffic. The closure came at the request of Bread Loaf Construction of Middlebury, the primary contractor on the Brooks House project. The underpass is expected to remain closed for the duration of the year-long renovations. Scaffolding at the rear of the building that had been up for more than a year has come down. Instead,
The current show at the Vermont Center for Photography, “Soma,” recent photographs by Michelle Rogers Pritzl, is not “easy.” It doesn't go down as smoothly as a beautiful landscape, close-up of a flower, or traditional portrait. But these photographs are as important as they are edgy. Looking in some instances like photos from a 19th-century chamber of tortures, the photographs are actually self-portraits of the artist which metaphorically depict the mental and emotional harm we inflict on ourselves, by carrying...
It must be so hard, Barack. I know you probably crawl into bed next to Michelle, after brushing your lips across your daughters' foreheads and pulling the covers closer to their sweet chins, and that you know how lucky you are that your marriage is respected in this country. You wrap your arms around her waist, remembering your wedding day, how lovely she looked, and how gloriously her bursting heart shone through her eyes. How your ancestors and community lifted...
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