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Voices

Courage to stand alone

By
Audrey Garfield
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 — Issue 482

BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Sherri Keefe, for your efforts to protect others from predation and abuse.

It takes such courage to stand alone in the face of all you're enduring when you tell your story.

Much love and support to you.

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

Covid levels remain low, but new variant looms

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 — Issue 673

For many Vermonters, this summer has been a time of diminishing worries about COVID-19, but this status could change quickly as the new BA.5 Omicron subvariant is starting to drive an uptick in cases nationwide. Vermont is reporting an increased proportion of BA.5 cases, according to the July 13 Vermont Department of Health (VDH) surveillance report. However, it does not seem to have driven a spike in overall cases in the state thus far. In New England, BA.5 made up...

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Voices

‘Scandalous’ allegations in news story

By
Connie Burton
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 — Issue 653

I was very disappointed in the article written about the Feb. 17 meet-and-greet for the new Guilford Selectboard candidates. To include the content of an email from Skye Morse, who alluded to Jason Herron, one of the candidates, as being linked to a white supremacist movement, was scandalous. What evidence do you have of the truth of that label? Absolutely none! You owe Jason an apology.

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Arts

BMAC to host pysanky egg-decoration workshop March 30

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 — Issue 503

On Saturday, March 30, from 1 to 4 p.m., acclaimed pysanky artist and instructor Jenny Santa Maria will lead a hands-on workshop at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on the traditional Ukrainian folk art of egg decoration. Participants will leave the workshop with a beautiful decorated egg. Pysanky technique is similar to batik. Patterns are drawn on an egg with hot beeswax, which protects covered areas from subsequent applications of colored dyes. When the wax is removed, a multi-colored...

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