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The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...
BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
BRATTLEBORO-I was full of Christmas cheer as I took a trolley from Cambridge to Boston...
BRATTLEBORO-When the first train steamed into town in 1849, a regional newspaper reported how "exhilaration of the moment burst forth" as residents celebrated the arrival of an easy route to seemingly everywhere in the world. Everywhere except neighboring New Hampshire, that is. The new rails ran beside the Connecticut River and a wooden covered bridge that carried horse-drawn buggies across to the Granite State, local historians recount. Transportation morphed into a steel span, and automobiles with the start of the...
BRATTLEBORO-Recently, a friend and I, each from our own homes, did a half-hour Zoom training to phone bank for Jamal Bowman, the Black Democratic congressman representing lower Westchester county and parts of the Bronx. As many readers know, he's facing a huge challenge in the upcoming Democratic primary there on June 25 from one George Lattimer, an undistinguished, retired former county executive who probably had no thought of running until he was approached by AIPAC [the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee].
WESTMINSTER WEST-The Zedashe Ensemble from the Republic of Georgia will give a concert of traditional Georgian music and dance on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. at the Westminster West Church. Mountainous Caucasus Georgia, situated on historic crossroads on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, has "one of the world's most ancient and arresting three-part harmony-singing traditions," organizers say, with a "dark, sonorous vocal quality and startling, unexpected, and heart-stirring harmonies." Directed by Ketevan Mindorashvili, Zedashe Ensemble was founded...
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