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.
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The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
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“There have been so many changes in the ways in which we treat our mentally ill and our elderly in our society,” says Sandy Ware, who has witnessed those changes locally firsthand over a long career of helping others, mainly at the Brattleboro Retreat and its former nursing home for resident patients, Linden Lodge. At just 14 years old, Ware was hired by longtime Recreational Director Frank Dearborn to assist in running one of the playground programs for the recreation...
For all voters of Westminster, Bellows Falls, and Brookline: The elections are coming up, and all voters who believe in free elections, in government for all, and that all people are equal need to pay attention. Our freedoms are in jeopardy and our values are under attack. Political conservatives will create such a conservative series of laws it will take decades to clean up. Michelle Bos-Lun and Leslie Goldman are two candidates who are 100 percent for the people. Michelle...
BRATTLEBORO-Samirah Evans of Brattleboro (samirahevans.com) will be a special guest soloist joining the Brattleboro Women's Chorus for the group's May 12 concert. The Commons caught up with her by phone recently to find out more. Here's an excerpt from the conversation. * * * Victoria Chertok: Hi, Samirah! What have you been up to musically? Samirah Evans: I'm happy to be coming up on 10 years of teaching jazz vocals at Williams College. I just completed my last day presenting...
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