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Voices

A great gift

By
Dotty Schnure
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 — Issue 344

The only thing I don't believe, Susan Odegard, is that you are not an accomplished person. Wow - you have found beauty in yourself and the world and have articulated it so well.

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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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Couple shared 'lifetime of love and commitment,' family says

By
Alan J. Keays
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 — Issue 788

NEWFANE-Vermont State Police said autopsies have revealed the deaths of two people whose bodies were found on Oct. 25 at a home in Newfane were caused by gunshot wounds, and that one died of homicide and the other suicide. The Vermont Chief Medical Examiner's Office in Burlington identified the two people as Blake Prescott, 91, and Helen Prescott, 88, a married couple, according to a press release late Monday afternoon from the state police. Their bodies were found at their...

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Voices

Small and close — and already overburdened

By
Deborah Wright
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 — Issue 336

I write to express my utter dismay at the Letter of Support for Windham County Sheriff's application submitted to the USDA Rural Community Development Initiative Grant Program. Despite the lofty scope of this project as it seeks funding, it is a social experiment being forced upon the already overburdened and struggling community of Bellows Falls. The USDA has chosen to designate our community as “high-poverty” and a “USDA's FY15 Opportunity Community” without fully understanding what a prison - euphemistically titled...

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Arts

TubaChristmas returns to West Brattleboro

Tuesday, December 3, 2024 — Issue 793

WEST BRATTLEBORO-The First Congregational Church in West Brattleboro has an excellent handbell choir, and a big bell in its historic clock tower. But on Sunday, Dec. 15, different bells will resound. Christmas carols will emanate from the bells of tubas and euphoniums in Brattleboro's 15th annual celebration of TubaChristmas. TubaChristmas brings together local players of valved low-brass instruments, including the tuba and euphonium (also known as a baritone horn), to rehearse and perform Christmas carols specially arranged in four parts.

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