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A celebration of apple pie in Dummerston

Pancakes, crafts, bikers and more than 1,400 pies make this town the place to be each October
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Joyce Marcel
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 — Issue 70
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When does spring start? In Vermont, it depends.

By
Kevin O'Connor

The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...

Welcome, spring!

By
Dorothy Grover-Read

BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...

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’Tis the season to be responsible

By
Shannon Derstine

BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...

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Rockingham considers merging three fire departments

By
Robert F. Smith
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 — Issue 764

ROCKINGHAM-The study by a Wyoming EMS consulting firm has recommended that three fire departments - Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, and Rockingham - be consolidated into one with one town-wide fire district. AP Triton presented the results of a feasibility study of the three local fire departments at a special joint board meeting of the Selectboard and the village trustees of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River. The Bellows Falls Fire Department employs a fire chief and on-call firefighters, while both village...

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Voices

Standing up to the union busters takes all of us

By
Robert Miller
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 — Issue 91

Your editorial in the March 2 Commons regarding the disgusting efforts of the Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, etc. to bust public service unions was right on target. Writing as a longtime retired trade union organizer and educator (United Auto Workers in Chicago, International Brotherhood of Teamsters in St. Louis), I would add one thought. In Europe today, trade union members would be out of their workplaces and on the streets en masse if faced with the same attack.

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Arts

‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’ at BUHS

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 — Issue 532

The Brattleboro Union High School Players will present Tom Stoppard's absurd comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on Friday, Oct. 18, and Saturday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. in the BUHS Auditorium. Admission is $5 at the door. This is a play where nothing happens, but it happens elaborately. It is a “clever, quirky, ingeniously crafted conundrum,” according to a news release, about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two non-entities in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pawns in an elaborate chess match they don't know...

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