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Correction

Wednesday, September 11, 2019 — Issue 527

A contribution to the Sept. 4 Letters from Readers column called out U.S. Rep. Peter Welch for not voicing support for impeaching President Donald Trump.

Welch, in fact, called for Trump's impeachment on July 18.

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Local preschooler saves family from perishing in fire

By
Kevin O'Connor
Wednesday, December 22, 2021 — Issue 644

Four-year-old Nolan Goodnow was supposed to be sleeping the night of Dec. 9 when he woke his mother at 3:30 a.m. to ask what he was hearing. “It sounded 'beep, beep,'” he recalled. Nolan's mother, Allison Gleason, thought it was a plow truck in the parking lot, only to look outside her second-floor apartment at 19 Western Ave. to see growing flames had triggered a fire alarm. Stopped by smoke upon opening the door, Gleason had to fall some 15...

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Voices

Hamory report skirts real answers to complicated problems

By
Claudia Caine
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 — Issue 775

The writer is retired president and chief operating officer of NYU Brooklyn Medical Center in New York. BRATTLEBORO-A consultant re-summarizing problems already well-known to executives and board members feels very familiar to many of us. Suggesting that hospitals alone should come together and begin solving problems over which they have very little control does what consultants have done for decades: It restates obvious challenges without providing feasible solutions. The conclusion is tantamount to a group of oncologists coming to a...

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Arts

All Souls Church hosts early music benefit concert by Night’s Black Bird

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 — Issue 500

At 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, All Souls Church will present “Love's Harvest,” a benefit concert of airs, arias, madrigals, and tonos by the Night's Black Bird trio from Allentown, Pa. Admission at the door is $15 and includes a gala reception; proceeds will help support ASC community-based programs and the Meeting House. Night's Black Bird, founded in 2017, first performed at All Souls in 2018. This year's program of 16th- and 17th-century songs, with accompaniment on lute, Baroque...

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