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Voices

McLoughlin: the good-governance candidate

By
Hank and Diana Lange
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 — Issue 499

BRATTLEBORO — We support Elizabeth McLoughlin for one of the two one-year seats on the Brattleboro Selectboard.

Liz is our next-door neighbor, and we know she shares our love for Brattleboro. We think of her as the good-governance candidate, having no particular issue or special interest, and one who would strive to make every decision based upon what would be in the best interest of the town as a whole and would constitute the common good.

We can not think of a better person than Liz to represent us on the Selectboard.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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Harris Hill ski jump returns, rising above a tree-tapping thaw

By
Kevin O'Connor
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 — Issue 703

With more wins than any other late-model stock-car racer at Barre's Thunder Road Speedbowl, Gov. Phil Scott has plenty of experience with speed sports. But standing at the base of Brattleboro's Harris Hill over the weekend, he apologized for not taking a turn at Vermont's sole Olympic-size ski jump. “I fully intended to compete,” the 64-year-old Scott told a crowd of thousands upon Saturday's start of the annual Presidents Day weekend competition. “But unfortunately, I left my skis at home.”

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Voices

Root cellars, sacred stones, and timeless connection

By
Carolyn North
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 — Issue 792

Carolyn North is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit." She submits this piece in memory of Pamela Mayer, the founder of the Manitou Project in Williamsville. North's book Voices Out of Stone covers her experience with the stones in Kercado in more detail and is available at carolynnorthbooks.com. PUTNEY-A good friend, knowing recently that I was going through a hard time with Covid, offered encouragement by sending me a poem by Rumi: Don't grieve.

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Arts

French Film Fridays at Hooker-Dunham goes Italian with Fellini classic

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 — Issue 461

Foreign Film Fridays (formerly French Film Fridays) at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, 139 Main St., pops up again Friday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m., with Federico Fellini's masterpiece 8 1/2 . Starring Marcello Mastroianni as a film director whose talents flounder in his obsessive pursuit of the “ideal woman,” 8 1/2 is a brilliant mixture of comedy and drama, surrealism and realism. According to a news release, “8 1/2 brings to life the ways the protagonist's egocentrism and machismo...

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