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Voices

A consummate host

By
John Isaac Sheldon
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 — Issue 461

A great project, and one I am happy and honored to be involved in.

Derrik Jordan has found a new way to get visionary musicians' work seen and heard. He is a consummate host who always seems to ask the right questions.

Voices

Please slow down

By
Emily Hallock

Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...

Free the drugs - one idea to address our collective trauma

By
Nancy Crompton

WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...

Republicans wary of Trump have the 'Jim Jeffords solution'

By
L. Michael Lovell

PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.

'Woeful ignorance or deliberate malice'

By
Marv Greenberg, DVM, CVA

MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,

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Gallery Walk will return, refreshed

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 — Issue 611

Gallery Walk returns to the downtown area on Friday, May 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. after two years - and it's all new. Formerly organized by the Arts Council of Windham County and led for years by volunteer Joy Wallens-Penford before her death last year, this year the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance (DBA) has taken the reins. Are organizers excited? “Oh, my God! The thing that's great is we're getting to imagine and manifest the Gallery Walk of our dreams,

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Voices

Keeping busy from home

By
Ronan Khalsa
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 — Issue 576

At age 22 I did not intend to be living in my parents' basement in West Dummerston Village directly behind the dying business that is the U.S. Post Office, of all places. I was planning on beginning my career in sports communication. But here I am, lying on my childhood bed, listening to the hum of the dehumidifier. On what was to be my commencement day, May 16, I watched a few videos from Bradley University and was officially conferred...

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Arts

Marlboro Music’s 72nd season culminates with Beethoven’s ‘Choral Fantasy’

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 — Issue 726

Marlboro Music concludes its 72nd Season on Sunday, Aug. 13, with the traditional Beethoven Choral Fantasy - a work of profound joy in which every community member has a voice. After a three-year hiatus and with Co-Artistic Director Jonathan Biss at the piano, the return of the Choral Fantasy is bound to be an emotional experience for musicians and audiences alike. Before Biss and the Festival Orchestra and Chorus bring another Marlboro summer to a triumphant conclusion, Marlboro Music's resident...

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