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BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
For some who are lobbying for legislative changes, approval of a bill that creates a task force might not be much to cheer about. But Rick Fleming sees it as real progress in his years-long push to overhaul Vermont's alimony statute. The Legislature has approved a bill, S.112, that temporarily imposes new alimony guidelines while also creating an eight-member “spousal support and maintenance task force” that will take a close look at the state's alimony law and how it might...
I'll admit, I had been a little skeptical when I purchased the tickets to Tristan und Isolde earlier in the summer. Wagner is a major undertaking for the largest, most established opera houses in the biggest of cities - what could we possibly expect from a newly formed company (Tundi Productions) based in a town of 12,000 and performing in a jewel-box theatre mostly used for movies? And even though Tristan is relatively modest by Wagnerian standards - five main...
On Saturday, June 10, at 7:30 p.m., at the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC), director Eugene Uman will present a newly tooled version of the quintet, the Convergence Project. This quintet is a vehicle for Uman to change hats, to focus on performance and composing rather than the production and educational mission of VJC. The formation of this version of the Convergence Project was inspired by an opportunity Uman had to perform with Francisco Mela a few years back at the...
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