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Voices

Raffle helps maintain historic buildings, fund kids’ programs

By
Melissa Jane Hall
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 — Issue 523

GUILFORD — Congratulations to the winners to this year's Guilford Historical Society Raffle - Lana Golden, Anne Montgomery and K. Orr!

The raffle was a super success and raised money to support the maintenance and much-needed repairs for our town's important historic buildings (including the 1837 Guilford Center Meeting House and 1797 Brick School House), as well as expand our museum operations and educational programming for Guilford kids.

The Guilford Historical Society thanks everyone who participated in this year's raffle, and send a big shout out to residents and local businesses who made generous donations.

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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He cleared the way for freedom

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 — Issue 809

BRATTLEBORO-George Stone Sr., closing in on his 101st birthday, is one of the last members of a dwindling fellowship - veterans of World War II. Stone served in the Army's 623rd Engineer Light Equipment Company as a combat engineer. His unit, assigned to the 1103rd Engineer Combat Group, landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 23, 1944, just 17 days after D-Day. Driving a Caterpillar D7 armored bulldozer across Europe through some of the toughest battles in the European...

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Voices

'I am just not willing to concede the political process'

By
Nancy Braus
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 — Issue 667

Recently, Bill McKibben spoke at the West Village Meeting House. He was, as always, both inspirational and down to earth with his analysis of the climate crisis. It is clear as daylight (when we are not looking through wildfire haze from the west) that the masters of capitalism have made a decision to destroy the Earth's climate rather than make the financial sacrifices it would take to make our energy system sustainable. Rather than choosing to stay in his small...

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Arts

Yellow Barn Artist Residency hosts ‘Works in Process’ performance by Sequentia

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 — Issue 796

PUTNEY-Yellow Barn Artist Residency hosts "Works in Process," a performance of Gregorious - The Holy Sinner by Sequentia, featuring Benjamin Bagby, Jasmina Črnčič, and Lukas Papenfusscline, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 7 p.m. "The 12th-century German knight and poet, Hartmann von Aue, relates an astonishing tale of victory over despair," organizers wrote in a news release. "Sequentia performs this premiere reconstruction about a man tossed about by fortune and unaware of his incestuous origins, who returns from near death to...

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