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Voices

Voting in Rockingham for the ‘Trustees You Can Trust’

By
Debbi Wetzel
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 — Issue 241

SAXTONS RIVER — I am so looking forward to voting on Town Meeting day, March 4, in Bellows Falls.

I will be filling in those little ballot bubbles and casting my vote for the new slate of trustees running for the Rockingham Free Public Library: Doreen Aldrich, Carol Blackwood, David Gould, and Ray Massucco are the names to remember.

Finally, a way for the community to be heard. “Trustees You Can Trust” is their campaign slogan, and it sure rings true.

I hope you will join me in Bellows Falls on Election Day, or obtain a absentee ballot.

Your vote counts. This is how we can make a positive change for our library.

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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Root Social Justice Center celebrates its first year

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 — Issue 271

Music sung by the brave karaoke few filled The Root Social Justice Center, a home away from home for many local nonprofits. The Root celebrated its first birthday last Saturday with awards, cake, karaoke, dancing, and fundraising. A work collective by day and a community events space by night, The Root houses four businesses while providing community meeting spaces, available by donation. Four friends - Angela Berkfield, Alex Fischer, Shela Linton, and Mel Motel - launched the center last year...

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Voices

Gynecological care without government interference

By
Deborah Lee Luskin
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 — Issue 530

The combination of mass shootings and the continual assaults on women's access to reproductive health care hit home a few weeks ago, when I attended the grand opening of the new Planned Parenthood office in downtown Brattleboro. I was frightened that the celebration would be marred by some horrendous act of violence. And still, I went. I arrived late, and the hallway was packed. I couldn't hear the first person to speak and thought, briefly, about using that as an...

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Arts

Nevermore? Not quite.

By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 — Issue 201

Edgar Allan Poe is coming back to life this May in Brattleboro. Portrayed by literary historian and playwright Rob Velella, the famed 19th century New England author will appear at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St., on Tuesday, May 14, at 7 p.m. In a theatrical performance entitled “Edgar Allan Poe: Love and Death,” Velella as Poe discusses his intertwining themes of love and death. “I portray Edgar A. Poe as if the writer/editor/critic had just risen from the dead,”

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