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...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
Tim Stevenson, founding director of Post Oil Solutions, has led weekly Friday vigils in front of the TD Bank branch on Main Street for more than two years to call attention to the financial giant's investments in fracked gas, tar sands oil, and the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines. But since the election of Donald J. Trump, Stevenson said the vigils have taken on an extra urgency, since Trump supports the construction of both pipelines, is an advocate of...
I am supporting Drew Hazelton of Jamaica for the member-at-large seat on the Windham Central Modified Union District School Board. I have had the pleasure of serving with Drew on Windham Central school committees and am impressed with his dedication, visioning, insight, and knowledge and his concern for high-quality education for students at all levels. Furthermore, he is an articulate speaker and can convey information in a clear and understandable manner. I am casting my vote for Drew, and I...
PUTNEY-Yellow Barn Artist Residency hosts "Works in Process," a performance of Gregorious - The Holy Sinner by Sequentia, featuring Benjamin Bagby, Jasmina Črnčič, and Lukas Papenfusscline, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m. "The 12th-century German knight and poet, Hartmann von Aue, relates an astonishing tale of victory over despair," organizers wrote in a news release. "Sequentia performs this premiere reconstruction about a man tossed about by fortune and unaware of his incestuous origins, who returns from near death to...
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