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Voices

A good sport

By
Eva Greene
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 — Issue 263

DUMMERSTON — Randolph Holhut writes about sports with remarkable precision and imagination.

We also appreciate the balanced tone of his Sports Roundup columns, which are never biased toward a particular team.

Voices

Stand together and push back on April 5

By
Indivisible Brattleboro

BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...

Here’s how you can get in touch with federal lawmakers

By
Lori Larue

WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...

What will it take for us to get louder and more visible?

By
Calvin Dame

BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...

Attack on cultural diversity is mean, shameful, intentional

By
Paul Weber

TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...

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News

Berg nominated for U.S. service academies

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, January 3, 2024 — Issue 746

Brattleboro Union High School senior Ben Berg has received a congressional nomination to the Air Force Academy. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt. recognized 19 young Vermonters who are being nominated to be members of the class of 2028 at U.S. service academies. The nominees were recognized at a reception at the Vermont State House on Dec. 30. Applicants to the academies - the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the United States...

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Voices

Pledging to a dream — with pride

By
Tom Buchanan
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 — Issue 392

It's been almost 50 years since I was a grade-schooler and first introduced to the Pledge of Allegiance. As a little boy I had no idea what that pledge meant, or that I was being indoctrinated to unquestionably accept the United States of America as a land that assures liberty and justice for all, and as a nation serving a single Christian God. Like most of my schoolmates I did what I was told. I blindly accepted the truthfulness of...

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Arts

VTC presents ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 — Issue 413

Vermont Theatre Company presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's beloved comedy about lovers lost in the woods fighting for the affections of their preferred partners while mischievous fairies interfere. The ensemble-based performance allows all the actors to shine. It features Heather Herring and Rachel Durante as Helena and Hermia, Jesse Cross-Nickerson and Alex Luckham as Demetrius and Lysander, Tony Grobe and Kirsten Becker as Oberon and Titania, James Gelter as Puck, Shannon Ward as Bottom, and a crew of talented...

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