PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
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Two years ago, Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark began experimenting with a new, 24-hour electronic monitoring program designed for suspects who might otherwise have been sent to prison to await disposition of their cases. Now, after receiving a positive review from a nonprofit crime-research group and backing from the state Legislature, Clark will try to expand the program statewide. Though the monitoring program got off to a somewhat slow start in Windham County, officials say it has shown clear financial...
In the Groundhog Day edition of The Commons, columnist Elayne Clift bemoans “circumstances grounded in the principles of our country's founders are slipping away.” She then goes on to write about voting rights and voter suppression. Our founders saw fit to own slaves and protect slavery. They suppressed the vote for everyone except propertied white men. There were some principles mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, but no one in power has bothered to live up to them yet.
The Sarasa Ensemble returns to the Brattleboro Music Center Saturday, March 18. The 7 p.m. performance, part of the BMC Season Guest Concert Series, is “All About My Mother.” Taking its title from Pedro Almodóvar's 1999 film, this program offers a musical reflection on the many facets of motherhood and the impact of her presence during life's various celebrations, rituals, and trials. The program will include Matthew Locke's “Fantasy” from Suite No. 5 in G minor from “Consort of Four...
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