WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
Three years after its gutting by fire, the Brooks House is heading into the home stretch of a $24 million renovation. On a walk last week through the historic 80,000 square-foot building, one could see the amazing progress made in the past four months. Wall framing still exposed in March is clad in drywall. Rows of windows fill their frames. Tile was being installed on the floor of the building's new, two-story atrium. Apartments boast cabinets, carpeting, and plumbing fixtures.
“You'd really do that?” I had asked the night nurse. You'd make me an English muffin and a hot cup of tea?” It was 4:30 on the third morning of my 10-day hospital sojourn. I was starved, and breakfast was many hours away. She soon reappeared with muffin and tea, and left me munching wearily, in a rare, quiet moment. I thought, Dear Lord, please - bless her forever and ever as I sipped the warming brew. Would I have...
Vermont author and Commons columnist Elayne Clift will read from her latest book, Children of the Chalet: New and Selected Stories, Grand Prize Winner for Fiction in the Greyden Press 2014 Book Competition, on Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 6 p.m., at Bartleby's Books, 17 West Main St. Clift's collection has two parts. The first, “Children of the Chalet,” from which the title is drawn, is a set of connected stories based on a year Clift spent in the 1960s as...
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