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Voices

Searching for some missing classmates

By
Susan Avery
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 — Issue 228

DUMMERSTON — In anticipation of our 50th Brattleboro Union High School Reunion, June 20-22, 2014, the class of 1964 organizing committee is interested in locating our missing classmates: James Guyette, Barbara McKinnon, Cathy Miller, Randal Sage, Harry Starkey, Gerald Stillings, Christopher Wellman, and Daniel Wilsey.

If you are aware of any details or information about these people, I would appreciate a telephone call, 802-345-4145, or ask that they respond directly to me.

We have an exciting weekend planned and hope for a great turnout.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Crunching the numbers

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 — Issue 182

Selectboard and department heads met on Dec. 8 for what was slated as the final budget meeting before 2013. After four hours, the board voted to table the budget until its Dec. 18 meeting. Board members asked Town Manager Barbra Sondag to assemble additional information for the board on the capital plan and whether to use undesignated funds, or “surplus” money, to ease pressure on the budget. Sondag said she had tried to assemble a budget that wouldn't significantly decrease...

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Voices

Linda Dierkes, remembered

By
Mary Ellen Copeland PhD
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 — Issue 689

Everything connected to Linda Dierkes' death was planned. As the pain increased and became less and less bearable, she took advantage of Vermont's Death with Dignity Law after being diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. An incredibly brave thing to do. Linda called it her “liftoff.” She chose the time: 11 a.m. on July 10, 2021. She was lying outside on a chaise lounge overlooking the hills of West Brattleboro, wearing a brightly flowered shirt that she bought for herself...

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Arts

FOMAG’s annual Midwinter Musicale looks at life, love, and loss in ‘The Last Dance’

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 — Issue 445

Friends of Music at Guilford's annual Midwinter Musicale begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17, in the sanctuary of Guilford Community Church, 38 Church Dr. Appropriately for Valentine's week, the program is a multimedia consideration of love, as it is woven inevitably through the weft of life and loss, and it includes elements of music, movement, and the spoken word. Last summer, Jessica Gelter, a former trustee and occasional soloist for Friends of Music, proposed performing David Lang's Death...

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