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Voices

Don’t believe senator didn’t know

By
Jean Anne Kiewel
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

BRATTLEBORO — Don't believe that Senator Jeanette White didn't understand that the Senate's marijuana legalization bill got transformed into a sellout to corporate interests.

And, yes, we read it - every single version.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

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News

Sanders rocks the Latchis

By
Shannon Haaland
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 — Issue 400

“I would like to say one or two things about other things happening in our country.” With those words, U.S. Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., launched into a critique of the Trump administration and the Republican majority delivered to a packed house at the Latchis Theatre on March 16. It's been nearly two years since Bernie Sanders has last visited Brattleboro, and it was clear he is as popular as ever. Sanders was there to announce $300,000...

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Voices

Letters 'feel like attack on the history, memory, and safety of Jewish people'

By
Brattleboro Area Jewish Community Committee Against Antisemitism
Wednesday, January 10, 2024 — Issue 747

We all want the war in Gaza to stop, now. But here, where we live, it is frightening to see recent letters in local papers not just criticizing the policies of Israel and its current government, but also including phrases and arguments questioning the very existence of Israel. These feel like an attack on the history, memory, and safety of Jewish people. Within our parents' lifetimes, millions of Jews were murdered across Europe and kicked out of all Arab countries,

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Arts

Blanche Moyse Chorale performs Brahms’s German Requiem

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 — Issue 684

The Blanche Moyse Chorale will perform Brahms's “German Requiem” Sunday, Oct. 9, in a concert at Marlboro College's Persons Auditorium. The program also features Brahms's “Nänie,” Op. 82. Composed between 1865 and 1868, the “German Requiem” is one of the composer's most beloved works. “While the soaring melodies and rich harmonies of this masterwork had immediate appeal, it was the fact that Brahms wrote it in German, rather than the more traditional liturgical Latin text, that made the work truly...

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