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Friends of Algiers Village purchase Guilford Country Store

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Olga Peters
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 — Issue 62
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A humble life of hope

By
Annie Landenberger

WILLIAMSVILLE-The passing of Rt. Rev. Thomas Clark Ely on Aug. 30 at age 73 has...

Windham seeks volunteers to manage the town’s properties

By
Brandon Canevari

WINDHAM-The recent acquisition of several properties throughout town has led to a call for more...

WSESD bus drivers one step from contract — or strike

By
Virginia Ray

BRATTLEBORO-After a week of contract negotiations, Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) school bus drivers and...

Chamber names Secrest its person of the year

By
Randolph T. Holhut

BRATTLEBORO-Kerry Secrest has been a successful business person, a civic leader, and someone who never...

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A success story

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 — Issue 616

Talk with Black farmer Earl Ransom, owner of Rockbottom Farm in Strafford, about farming in Vermont and you know right away his success is unique and underlines a bigger issue that local Windham County farm initiatives for BIPOC people are trying to address. “I was born here and raised here, but the people who seem most alarmed by the fact of me tend to be from not here,” says Ransom. The 48-year-old Ransom, co-owner of Rockbottom Farm with his wife...

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Thanks from GunSenseVT

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Ann Braden
Wednesday, July 3, 2013 — Issue 210

On behalf of Gun Sense Vermont, I thank those who attended our vigil on the Brattleboro Common, commemorating the six-month anniversary of the massacre in Newtown, Conn. I also thank the singers who contributed to this occasion, Pastor Susanna Griefen of the Dummerston Congregational Church for her reading, and state Rep. Mike Mrowicki, who spoke about his efforts to pass sensible gun legislation favored by a majority of Vermonters. Our goal is to keep guns in the hands of those...

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From eerie to sublime, the theremin comes to Epsilon Spires

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 — Issue 533

Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St., will host two events and a workshop featuring the theremin, an electronic musical instrument invented by Russian physicist Leon Theremin in 1919. Composed of a box with two metal antennae, the theremin is unique among musical instruments in that it is played without being touched. An electromagnetic field is created between the antennae and, when a hand is moved between them, pitches raise and lower. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent...

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