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Voices

Glad for Opal’s return

By
Pamela Simmons
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 — Issue 330

BRATTLEBORO — I hope we can encourage Opal Robinson to get back into her writing or her art - it is therapeutic.

My hope is that the bullying in the local schools will somehow be stopped.

So glad she's home safe. Good luck to her and the family.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Dairy farm marks 150th anniversary

By
Anna Wojenski
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 — Issue 475

Fifty years ago, New England supported more than 11,500 dairy farms. Only 1,500 still operate today. One of them, the Corse Farm Dairy, like many others, is a family farm - but one that has spanned six generations and recently celebrated a century and a half of operation. “My great-great grandfather moved here from Somerset in 1868,” said Leon Corse, who now works the property with his wife, Linda, and their daughter, Abbie. “He bought the farm, and the mortgage...

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Voices

Not down the middle

By
David Deen
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 — Issue 737

Most waterbodies marking a boundary between two states or countries have an imaginary dotted line running down their middle. The Connecticut River does not because, as everyone "knows," the river belongs to New Hampshire. However, as with all things human, the real circumstances are more complicated. The reality about river ownership started with the original land grants from England, modified during the time of the American Revolution, with the present-day boundary set by a U.S. Supreme Court decision. The English...

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Arts

Dance to connect the mind and the body

By
Wendy M. Levy
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 — Issue 289

With a theme of “Myth, Lore, and Legend,” the Goddess Rising belly dance performance returns for its second year to the Stone Church. The fundraiser on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m., will offer attendees “Cabaret, Egyptian, Turkish, American Tribal Style, and many other forms of bellydance,” say event organizers Shanta L.E., Cyndal Ellis, and Kelsey Captolia Indziniak. Preceding the event, from 2-4 p.m., organizers invite the community to learn some belly-dance moves in “Body and Earth: An Ecofeminist Introduction...

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