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BRATTLEBORO-After a varied teaching career of 33 years, Alice Charkes, language teacher, is retiring on June 14. Since 2007 she has taught French to all grades at Green Street School. "It's important to understand the pulse of whom you're teaching," she said. "You have to know who the American kid is in the 2020s. My approach is to teach kids stuff that they can access and use, or that relates to them. It has to be interesting and immediate and...
BRATTLEBORO-For 12 years, I have had the honor of serving as a Vermont state representative, representing Brattleboro's third district (Windham-9). While I have decided that it is time for me to step back from this work, I could not be more thrilled to endorse Ian Goodnow in the primary election on Aug. 13. Ian is a remarkable person. He is kind and wise and relentlessly curious - all qualities that will allow him to shine in the State House. It...
BRATTLEBORO-Juno Orchestra presents "Context: Six Centuries," on Sunday, Feb. 2, at 2:30 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC). Juno Music Director Zon Eastes explained in a news release that the concert will feature works from six centuries that may share similar formal structures, texts, or intentions, though each is singular and commanding on its own. For example, Eastes has chosen two settings of a revered Latin text, O Magnum Mysterium, by composers living 500 years apart, one from the...
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