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Voices

Hit the links after hitting the books

By
David Ahern
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 — Issue 323

BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro has been fortunate to have Jerry Carbone, a leader and gentleman, at the helm of its library.

Now for his golf game: perhaps a little more time devoted to the game will pick things up a bit.

Voices

Town Meeting: an extremely rare direct democracy

By
Bahman Mahdavi

NEWFANE-Town Meeting, a state holiday usually held on the first Tuesday in March, is a...

In support of judges

By
Meg Lucas

This letter, submitted by Meg Lucas, is co-signed by Nancy Witherill (Bartonsville), Sherry Maher (Athens),

Ten ways you are being burned by billionaires

By
Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins is a researcher, campaigner, and storyteller based at the Institute for Policy Studies,

When debt crowds out defense

By
Jim Freedman

Jim Freedman is a leadership consultant and author. BRATTLEBORO-In the 18th century, Scottish Enlightenment thinker...

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Brattleboro wonders about the future of its downtown

By
Kevin O'Connor
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 — Issue 762

BRATTLEBORO-Five years ago, this community received an early Christmas present with the November 2019 news of a proposed $30 million arts and apartment block for downtown. "This project," Brattleboro Museum & Art Center director Danny Lichtenfeld said then of the priciest Main Street plan in local history, "will encourage enduring economic and civic vitality." Four months later, the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything. The museum and its partners at M & S Development saw funding for their seven-story building dry up...

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Voices

Our banana republic

By
Jerry A. Sierra
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 — Issue 445

Sometimes I see Cuban history everywhere I look. Sometimes, lately, I just see Cuba. This wet-paper blur on the sidewalk, between a Starbucks and the post office, looks a lot like Cuba in more ways than one. It sits there, with concrete oceans for borders, withstanding assaults from the heavy shoes of predatory capitalists, yet it survives. I take a snapshot of wet-paper Cuba, and later, in a cab, I recall the picture and imagine that it could not have...

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Arts

Dance school hosts open auditions for ‘Nutcracker’

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 — Issue 529

Brattleboro School of Dance will hold open auditions for this season's Nutcracker ballet on Sept. 28. The audition is open to interested community members age 6 and up. The children's audition (ages 6-12) will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Parents and grandparents for the “Party Scene” try out at 3 to 3:45 p.m., intermediate and advanced ballet and character dancers audition from 3:45 to 4:30 p.m., and en pointe dancers from 4:30 to 5 p.m. The school asks that...

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