BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A community photographer, mentor, and friend” [Editorial, April 3]:
A nice tribute to a good friend who is already missed by many.
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...
<p>A three-judge panel of the Vermont Supreme Court has rejected the latest appeal by opponents of a proposed affordable housing community on Alice Holway Drive in Putney, but despite a new construction start date of spring 2024, appellant Laura Campbell says she will take steps to request a re-argument of the appeal in front of the full court.</p> <p>The July 21 ruling by the state’s highest court affirms the Environmental Court’s decision earlier this year to reject an appeal to...
Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit." PUTNEY-Recently, I went to a high school production of Cabaret to see the daughter of a good friend performing in it. Assuming I was going to a kind of variety show, I expected a sweet teenage-y thing - but it wasn't. I'd forgotten that Cabaret was also the name of a musical based on Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories taking place during the rise...
Diwali, the Indian festival of light, will be celebrated Saturday, Oct. 29, at Main Street Arts. The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. with the lighting of the Diwali lamps and an invocation by Prachi Dalal, followed by a short demonstration of Indian music by Do One Thing, the duo of Gordon Korstange on south Indian flute and Joel Eisenkramer on north Indian slide guitar. Dalal will then present movement and rhythms from the classical dance repertoire of Kathak, a dance...
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