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Voices

Thanks from family of Joyce Scott

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 — Issue 387

We, the family of Joyce Scott, extend our sincere appreciation to our friends, family, and co-workers for their expressions of sympathy.

We are forever grateful for the many cards, notes of remembrance, food and donations to her charities: Rescue Inc., Putney Cares, and Kurn Hattin Homes.

We also thank Grace Cottage Hospital, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, Dr. Elizabeth McLarney, Vernon Hall, and Rescue Inc. for the wonderful care she received.

Thanks also to Mike Atamaniuk and staff, Father Fred McLaughlin for the beautiful Mass, Dummerston Center Grange, and the many others who assisted with services.

Voices

Southern Vermont has been here before

By
Adam Grinold

Adam Grinold is executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation. For more about the...

A fully democratic process

By
Dan DeWalt

Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...

A resistance emboldened by love

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Town Meeting: an extremely rare direct democracy

By
Bahman Mahdavi

NEWFANE-Town Meeting, a state holiday usually held on the first Tuesday in March, is a...

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Voters speed through agenda

By
Wendy M. Levy
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 — Issue 449

At the Town Meeting registration table in the Guilford Central School gymnasium, a French-made black wool beret waited for its owner, a “lost-and-found” sign next to it. “Someone brought the hat from last year's meeting,” when they found it was left forgotten, Town Moderator Rick Zamore said. “Guilford is a town that never forgets!” No articles were defeated or successfully amended this year at Town Meeting, and residents heaped praise on the road crew, Zamore said. “Everything zipped through,” he...

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Voices

On June 14 - and every day to follow - we will not be silent

By
Brattleboro Area Action and Indivisible Brattleboro
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 — Issue 819

Details about the event appear in a news story this issue. BRATTLEBORO-On June 14, Flag Day, Brattleboro and our surrounding communities will come together to make the collective statement: Let freedom fly! Our community has been amazing in the months since we have understood the threat to our lives from the Trump regime - threats to our natural environment, and to the moving target of those who are in the crosshairs of the current government. All communities are unique, but...

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Arts

Marlboro Music finishes season

Wednesday, August 7, 2019 — Issue 522

When Marlboro Music closes its 69th season on Sunday, Aug. 11, at 2:30 p.m., with the traditional performance of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, it will mark the first time that newly-appointed co-artistic director, pianist Jonathan Biss, will play the work that brings together the whole community. Musicians play in the orchestra or sing in the chorus with family members, neighbors, and even some audience members. It is a joyous and emotional summation of seven weeks of living in dormitories and country...

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