RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,
BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,
Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...
Lawmakers came back to the Statehouse in force last Thursday for a daylong legislative “briefing.” The seats in the House Chamber were nearly full and a number of senators sat in the gallery to hear the Shumlin administration's updates on the state's recovery from Tropical Storm Irene, a summary of the revenue forecast, the budget gap analysis and an overview of the status of the governor's two main objectives – health care reform and the development of a comprehensive energy...
Traveling in the searing sun and suffering from blistering feet, sickness, dehydration, and fatigue, the refugees coming from Honduras on the so-called Caravan are not the “real bad people” Trump describes. Rather, they are the victims of successive U.S. administrations that put power in the hands of really bad people. The term “Banana Republic” first referred to Honduras, where the United States sent the Marines at least six times in the last century simply to keep resources and cheap labor...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro-based band Eloise & Company is joined by Rachel Aucoin in a performance at the Brattleboro Music Center Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m. Eloise & Co. is a shifting ensemble - often a duo and, at other times, a trio with piano or guitar. With Becky Tracy on fiddle, octave fiddle, and vocals and Rachel Bell on accordion and vocals, Eloise & Co. plays a range of music including French folk groove tunes, Celtic reels, waltzes, and Quebecois tunes.
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