What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
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At a lieutenant governor candidate forum here June 14, an audience member submitted an index card featuring a pointed question: “With all due respect, why should we care?” The three Democrats seeking Vermont's second-in-command administrative job did their best to make their case for the office's relevance, and for their plans to personalize and transform the position. Their ideas differ in some respects. But Kesha Ram, Shap Smith and Dave Zuckerman each talked about the lieutenant governor becoming some combination...
I really don't know whose terrible idea it was. There was no chance I would ever be accepted into Middlebury, Colby, Smith, or Wellesley. If it was my idea, I wish there'd been someone around who'd known the ins and outs of need-blind admissions and could have saved my parents the application fees. I was an engaged student in high school. Our school in Maine was small - a little under 300 students. Parents in the area scraped out a...
WILLIAMSVILLE-Rock River Players' (RRP) production of Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling continues this weekend at the Williamsville Hall. Based on Harling's experience with his own sister's death, the 1987 play is about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. The all-woman cast includes four players new to the RRP: Susan Boyd Joyce, formerly from Los Angeles and now from Brattleboro; Melanie Keiser, of Williamsville; Mo Hart, known locally to Actors Theatre Playhouse audiences; and Charlene Kennedy,
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