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MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons' report in the Jan. 15 issue about a community forum organized by Hank Poitras, aka Planet Hank, touched some nerves, to say the least. Several points to clarify or correct: • In distilling remarks from Elizabeth Bridgewater, the executive director of the Windham-Windsor Housing Trust, Marcel characterized the perpetrators of crime and disruption in WWHT properties inflicted on WWHT tenants as "undesirables." Bridgewater wants to make it clear that she did not use that word and that such...
For years, I have passed by the Rockingham Meeting House and sometimes stopped my car to ask myself again, “How is someone supposed to read the historic roadside marker on Route 103 just below the Rockingham Meeting House?” Again, when I attended the annual program at the meeting house, I purposely went back to the sign and determined whether someone had noticed this shortcoming (actually, long-coming, due to its extra-long pole!) and was giving it the attention it deserves. The...
We may think of Russia as the cold, frozen wasteland of Dr. Zhivago, but the Windham Orchestra's upcoming Russia is “exotic, warm, and fantastical,” according to a news release. The concert, which spotlights richly textured works of two renowned Russian composers, is set for Sunday, Feb. 11, at 3 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre on Main Street. Acknowledging that almost daily news headlines have focused our attention on Russia in recent months, Windham Orchestra Musical Director Hugh Keelan said in...
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