RE: “What happens when a library loses its spirit?” [Column, Sept. 25]:
What a beautiful and resonant description of what we love about and get from libraries!
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A year ago, Nicole James vowed that a chronic autoimmune disease wouldn't stop her from fulfilling a childhood dream of running in the world's oldest annual race, the Boston Marathon. Waking morning upon morning before sunrise, she trained mile upon mile for the event's 2022 Patriots Day return after a pandemic of postponements. Then, just days before the start, James caught Covid. Seeing the 49-year-old Brattleboro resident sidelined, friends pointed to a silver lining: James' accompanying fundraising efforts had reaped...
The following is a letter sent to Gov. Phil Scott and copied to the newspaper.The Brattleboro Selectboard has written to ask for your signature on Brattleboro's Charter Change petition. Our years-long effort to advance the goals of the people of Brattleboro will die with the stroke of your pen should you veto the bill after all these years. In a Dillon's Rule state such as ours, few avenues are available to us to advance any change in our means and...
There is little that jazz master Howard Brofsky has not experienced in his varied and lengthy musical career. Due to his many years of living in Brattleboro, Brofsky's presence is familiar and welcome during his sojourns north. But in New York City, he is a venerated maestro with stellar connections. This year, he has mined one of the finest quintets imaginable, lifting them directly from New York's jazz scene to the Vermont Jazz Center on May 18. The group will...
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