RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
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...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
Brooks Memorial Library will keep its doors open longer two days a week starting in September. Thanks to the unexpected $2 million bequest from Brattleboro resident, the late Ronald Read, the library will extend its hours of operation. Starting Sept. 12, the library will remain open into Saturday afternoon and beginning Sept. 17, doors will open Thursday mornings. “It was such good news, I brought a party,” joked Library Director Jerry Carbone when he and members of the Library Trustees...
Proving once again that the pen is mightier than the sword, Iowa's Republican governor, Kim Reynolds, signed into law on March 9 the first of what could be a nationwide avalanche of voter suppression laws that surpasses anything like this since the Jim Crow era. With 253 similar bills being pushed by Republican legislatures in 43 states, the assault against democracy by the increasingly desperate Grand Old Party continues. The Republicans have become a minority party that cannot win elections...
New England Youth Theatre's Theatre Adventure presents Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream on Thursday, April 13, at 10:30 a.m., and Friday, April 14, at 7 p.m., at the West Village Meeting House in West Brattleboro. According to a news release, the Theatre Adventure Thursday Troupe's spring production promises to be “an unforgettable experience for audiences and performers alike,” as the company explores Shakespeare's “rhythmic language and outrageous storylines.” In the play, a nobleman of Athens named Egeus believes he has...
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