BRATTLEBORO — Shut off air conditioning in all government offices in the 10 most offending countries*.
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Our Town is hurting Our Town, full of playful spirit, friendly faces good hearts, is hurting. Young people taken from us suddenly, seeming without reason, a woman who chose to help the less fortunate taken from us brutally. The very trees seem to have lost their ability, their desire to stand upright, strong undermined by the soil they root in their trunks ravaged, branches littering the muddy ground. * * * But we are undeterred: there is too much Life...
Guilford Center Stage returns after a 3-year intermission with a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford. Performances are Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 7 at 2 p.m. Ian Hefele directs a cast from the tri-state region. A theatrical groundbreaker when it debuted in 1938, Our Town was written at the nearby MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and the town of Grover's Corners in...
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