RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
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...
Stroll downtown, and Christmas screams everywhere. So imagine the surprise when a recent ad for Brown and Roberts Hardware pictured a child hammering home a different holiday. “Build and paint your own menorah!” the workshop poster promised. “Enjoy donuts, hot cocoa and chocolate Chanukah gelt!” The Green Mountain State may morph each December into a 5.9-million-acre set for White Christmas, but the Jewish holiday of Chanukah is set to shine its own light on the area beginning Sunday at dusk.
What would it feel like to put on an undershirt, layered with a bulletproof vest, uniform, boots, and heavy utility belt, and then holster a radio and gun - in all types of weather? Then go de-escalate volatile situations? Now imagine doing so for nine hours a day, sometimes longer if you're in the middle of an active situation at the end of your shift. Would you manage that with a cool head and compassionate heart? Vermont State Trooper Nader...
All Souls UU Church is hosting an exhibit of more than a decade of paintings by Jeremy Aldridge, many focused on Ukraine. Organizers of the show describe the first series, "Processing the World," as "a group of intuitive acrylic paintings on canvas from the decade leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine." The second series, "Witnessing Ukraine," features paintings inspired by media photos of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Aldridge grew up in Brattleboro and is a graduate of...
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