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Voices

Good Van Goghing

By
Robyn Flatley
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 — Issue 280

BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for painting a quick sketch of Charles Monette, who, after 19 years, is once again presenting his artistic work on the stage. I look forward to seeing “Becoming van Gogh.”

Voices

‘Nobody knows what I’m going to do’

By
MacLean Gander

MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...

On being Jewish now

By
Deborah Lee Luskin

Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...

Some notes on bravery (and Brahms)

By
Meg Donahue

Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...

Looking beyond generalizations

By
Emily Carris Duncan

Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...

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Three overdose in Brattleboro within one day

By
Randolph T. Holhut and Jeff Potter
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 — Issue 394

The Brattleboro Police Department responded to two calls involving what they call “untimely deaths” about 75 minutes apart on Feb. 6. People posting on social media said they picked up on emergency scanner channels that the deaths were drug-related. Two people were found dead, and a third person was hospitalized and later died. Cassandra Holloway, executive director of the Brattleboro Area Prevention Coalition, told The Commons that this drug activity likely points to “a bad batch of lethal fentanyl with...

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Making me the man I want to be

By
Joel Kaemmerlen
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 — Issue 244

I was 7 years old, pulling back my bow in the yard, an arrow knocked into the string and about to let loose into the target my father had built for me. I made a decent shot and looked up to see my neighbor standing in his yard and looking down. Robert Awad had a wide honest smile, and the sun glowed down onto his bright white hair. “Nice form!” he said. With these simple words of affirmation began one...

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Arts

In-Sight offers youth artist residencies

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 — Issue 695

For the second year, In-Sight Photography Project will run a youth artist residency. This year, In-Sight will expand the residency and participants will join them for both winter recess (Feb. 20-24) and spring recess (April 17-21) periods. In-Sight will provide three to five young artists (ages 15-18) the time, space, and material resources to work on an independent project of the student's choosing. The residency, running from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, will be largely student-motivated with...

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