RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by...
At almost 90 years old, Verne Bristol's heart and his memories are still very much with Rescue Inc., the organization he and 13 other men founded in Brattleboro in 1966. What does Bristol, a former president of the nonprofit and a town resident, think of the town's desire to allow the Brattleboro Fire Department to ultimately take over Rescue Inc.'s responsibilities? “I'm sure our new town manager is a smart man and was hired with good reason,” Bristol says, referencing...
In his letter, Darren Tessitore complains about the Brattleboro Retreat stealing “our hard-earned tax dollars.” I have heard quite a few of these references to “hard- earned tax dollars” in recent years, mainly from the affluent Republican Wall Street crowd, such as investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and their ilk. They constantly complain about any public expenditures to improve the nation's social services, but they applaud and encourage almost unlimited public expenditure on disastrous wars overseas. Many of us will...
Get the lowdown on Marked Man, the latest novel featuring fictional detective Joe Gunther on Saturday, Oct. 2 at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. Author Archer Mayor will be available to meet and greet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the plaza in front of the library. Copies of his 32nd mystery, will be available for sale and signing from Everyone's Books. In Marked Man, Mayor juggles several plotlines. A year after the death of affluent Nathan Lyon...
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