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Voices

The story behind the food

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 — Issue 374

BRATTLEBORO — Aww! After all these years eating at the Chelsea Royal Diner, it's so sweet to know the story. I wish I had known it earlier on! I know where we're going out next!

Beautiful writing, Wendy M. Levy!

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

Wintry mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain may come for Christmas

By
Dave Hayes
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 — Issue 439

Good day to you, fellow humans. We've got some up-and-down temperature swings to roll through this week, but the main story is the potential for wintry impacts starting Friday afternoon and lasting through Christmas Day before another blast of very cold Arctic air moves back into southern Vermont to close out 2017. The details want to be gotten into, so let's get into them! For Wednesday, a cold front passes through the region and clears us out after some morning...

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Voices

Surely, we have more intelligent choices

By
Steven K-Brooks
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 — Issue 550

I do not call myself a “white ally,” nor do I label myself in any way which commits me to a formulaic list of prescribed behavior. When I lived there in the late 1970s, Main Street separated East Buffalo from West Buffalo. It was a “color line” in a town where open racism was common. When Diane and I went to a Gino Vannelli concert together, neither of us expected to end up in jail. Diane, star-struck, hoped to meet...

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Arts

Walpole Players present ‘Grumpy Old Men, The Musical’

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 — Issue 714

This month, The Walpole Players will bring Grumpy Old Men, The Musical (set in chilly Wabasha, Minnesota) to the Walpole Town Hall. Loaded with heartwarming humor and unexpected energy, Grumpy Old Men - The Musical is an unforgettable show that will remind us that “life is all about livin'!” Based on the 1993 film, Grumpy Old Men , starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, it's about two childhood friends who became aging neighbors who loved to fish. Then a mysterious...

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