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Voices

BUHS Class of ’75 prepares for 40th reunion

By
Biz Dana
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 — Issue 309

The Brattleboro Union High School Class of 1975 will hold our 40th reunion on Saturday, June 20, at 6 p.m.

We will hold a cash bar and cash menu event at the Marina Restaurant, inside and upstairs.

Please check out the BUHS Alumni Weekend schedule on Facebook Group “BHS/BUHS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.”

A potluck, mid-day brunch gathering will take place the next day at a location to be determined.

Classmates are more than welcome to join the “Brattleboro Union High School Class of 1975” Facebook page for continued information and updates, or email me at bizdana@yahoo.com.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

‘Back to the drawing board’ for Guilford Free Library

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, June 1, 2022 — Issue 666

After a March 1 Annual Town Meeting vote approved a $1.2 million expansion plan for the Guilford Free Library by just 15 votes (348–333), a re-vote on May 24 has nixed the plan by 30 votes, 405–375. The revote came after 10 percent of the town's registered voters signed a petition requesting it. The article was exactly as first presented, asking for a $205,000 bond to help pay for the project and that the town reallocate $195,000 in money originally...

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Voices

McLoughlin: smarts, experience, big-picture understanding, and tenacity

By
Martha B. Straus
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 — Issue 703

I offer my enthusiastic support for Elizabeth McLoughlin's bid for re-election to the Brattleboro Selectboard. I've lived and worked in the Brattleboro area for my entire adult life and I love our community. As a clinical psychologist, I am particularly concerned about the degree of trauma and emotional vulnerability underpinning most - if not all - of the social problems we face, including homelessness, substance abuse, domestic and community violence, climate change, and crime. These are all complex issues without...

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Arts

Julian Gerstin Sextet to play house concert in Guilford

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 — Issue 489

The Julian Gerstin Sextet performs original jazz inspired by melodies and rhythms of the Caribbean and Balkans. The ensemble will release the group's new CD, The Old City, at a house concert at Wendy Redlinger's home at 2596 Tater Lane, on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m. The CD celebrates the world's crossroads cities, where immigrants and longtime residents mingle their musical traditions and new sounds emerge. Listeners will hear cumbia from Bogota, danzón from Havana, mambo from New York,

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