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Voices

They still sound great

By
Betsy Nichols
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 — Issue 294

Wonderful article - thanks. It prompted me to listen to Feathers tonight for the first time in a few years; the group still sounds great.

I'm going to look for Ruth Garbus's solo music online now!

Voices

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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News

Another weekend storm follows this week’s fair weather

By
Dave Hayes
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 — Issue 545

Hello and good day to you, residents of the snow-covered hills and dales of Windham County! All in all, our week ahead is looking mostly calm, cool and collected, but this weekend will serve as the fly in that forecast's ointment. We'll have mostly sunny skies Wednesday and Thursday, with more clouds than sun on Friday. Temperatures will be increasing gradually though that three-day period, with dry conditions expected. Clouds will build on Saturday, and it appears that we could...

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Voices

‘I try to feel shaken to the core/but I am numb in the horror’

By
Brandie Starr
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 — Issue 616

Surreal living and grieving when no more than a few years ago I would have said I have not experienced much death in my inner family or circles slowly, about three years ago that began to change but when those friends died we gathered we saw pictures with their eyes and smiles looking back we held each other we sat in established places together no one wondered where to meet and who to hold and now I lose count of...

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Arts

Three novelists to discuss their work at Village Square Booksellers

Wednesday, July 21, 2021 — Issue 622

Three New England novelists who love to weave stories with strong characters who prevail against the odds will visit Village Square Booksellers, 32 The Square, on Thursday, July 22, at 5 p.m. Rev. Jane Willan, Eileen O'Finlan, and Eileen Charbonneau, who call themselves the Scribe Sisters, invite all to join them for a talk about their books and their writing process in what will be the bookstore's first in-person event since the pandemic and shutdown. Willan is the author of...

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