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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.”

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Please slow down

By
Emily Hallock

Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...

Free the drugs - one idea to address our collective trauma

By
Nancy Crompton

WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...

Republicans wary of Trump have the 'Jim Jeffords solution'

By
L. Michael Lovell

PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.

'Woeful ignorance or deliberate malice'

By
Marv Greenberg, DVM, CVA

MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,

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Martha O’Connor, longtime teacher and public servant, dies at 82

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 — Issue 526

Martha H. O'Connor, former chair of a host of local and state governing boards, died Sept. 2 at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H., at age 82. The former Martha Elizabeth Hannum was born April 26, 1937, in Brattleboro, daughter of David and Rhona (Patterson) Hannum of Putney. She graduated from Brattleboro Union High School in 1955 and the University of Vermont in Burlington in 1959 before marrying Timothy J. O'Connor Jr. of Brattleboro July 8, 1961. The two celebrated...

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The impact of one concerned citizen

By
Marcy Hermansader
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 — Issue 663

Joyce Marcel's column brought back pleasant memories of my own - getting up at the crack of dawn to go to the Newfane Flea Market with my late husband, Jonathan Flaccus, owner of The Unique Antique on Main Street in Putney. But I'd like to add a dark moment to the story. On Sept. 10, 2000, Jonathan wrote a letter to Bill Graham, then the Windham County Sheriff, alerting him to the proliferation of dealers selling guns at the market.

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Arts

Stage 33 Live hosts Pat Daddona album release concert

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 — Issue 719

Folksinger and finger-style guitarist Pat Daddona is promoting her new crowd-funded digital album, Roads, with a matinee at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge St., on Sunday, June 18, at 3 p.m. Roads was crowdfunded on Kickstarter by her fans, and a team of New England-based musicians and sound engineers performed on and produced it. Daddona, a social worker by day and late-blooming songwriter the rest of the time, says on her Kickstarter page, “I write songs that celebrate the spirit...

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