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Trieber wins special election to fill remainder of Thomson’s term

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 — Issue 64
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The great-great-grandmother of all fundraisers

By
Kevin O'Connor

BRATTLEBORO-Most matriarchs observe Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. But Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley...

Breaking ground

By
Ellen Pratt

PUTNEY-After years of planning and navigating legal challenges, co-developers Windham-Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and Burlington-based...

At Rockingham Meeting House, workers dig up local history

By
Robert F. Smith

ROCKINGHAM-A crew from Hartgen Archeological Associates spent a week at the Rockingham Meeting House earlier...

A half-century legacy

By
Johanna Gardner

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) is proudly celebrating 50-plus years of bringing locally grown...

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The other flu

Friday, November 6, 2009 — Issue 45

It was called the Spanish flu, but few realized that the strain didn't actualize in the country of its namesake. Spain simply didn't use wartime censors in its newspapers as other countries did during The Great War (later known as World War I), making reports from Spain more reliable than other news sources, and by proxy suggesting to many that the disease originated there. Scientists are still working to extrapolate where the influenza epidemic of 1918 might have originated. There...

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Voices

A common language

By
Lynn Martin
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 — Issue 201

What is a woman if she is defined by women? This was what I thought the women's movement was all about. In early consciousness raising groups, we encouraged women to speak up and speak out. Implicit in such encouragement was a promise to listen. Feminist presses sprang into being. Poetry readings were held in every town. We all had subscriptions to Ms. and at least one other journal. No doubt in the sixties and seventies, feminism was my faith. I...

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Arts

Québec trio É.T.É. performs livestream concert

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 — Issue 591

Halcyon Arts presents É.T.É. as part of its live Streaming World at Home concert series on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m. The trio offers bold and refined arrangements of pieces from the traditional Québec and Acadian repertoire, as well as original compositions. Awarded the OPUS prize for “Discovery of the Year 2017-18,” among the many other accolades they've received since their first album release in 2017, É.T.É. are Élisabeth Moquin (fiddle, step-dancing, vocals), Thierry Clouette (bouzouki, podorythmie, vocals), and...

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