BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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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...
Strolling of the Heifers has a new executive director. Erin O'Connor comes to the Brattleboro-based nonprofit with a deep and diverse resumé, with more than 20 years in secondary and higher education. But she said she felt it was time for a change in her life. “I realized that I loved farms and that I loved agriculture,” O'Connor said. “I realized I wanted to do something that combined what I do well with what I had an inherent interest in...
President Obama, congratulations on your victory! Since the 2009 depths of financial crisis devastation, your stimulus programs have produced modest-but-steady U.S. job growth, while Eurozone-adopted austerity-only measures - foolishly favored by many U.S. Conservatives - have faltered. Please keep it up! Furthermore, would you please ignore the foolish, false, self-interested recommendations by banking interests to the effect that Social Security should be cut or privatized? It should be neither of those things. Not only does Social Security provide an indispensable...
In the climax of D. W. Griffith's 1920 silent melodrama Way Down East, the film's heroine is trapped on an ice floe rushing toward a waterfall. The frozen river that served as the stage for her peril, and subsequent dramatic rescue, was constructed in the editing room from footage of the White and Connecticut rivers. The climactic scene was filmed at the meeting of these two rivers near White River Junction, making Way Down East Vermont's first feature film appearance.
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