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!
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
As has been the case for about a year, the Tuesday, Feb. 28 Windham Southeast School District school board agenda included “sexual abuse investigation update” under the heading of “unfinished business.” Until that meeting, there has been virtually no update as board members say they are taking their cues from legal counsel. Several people, including Brattleboro Union High School alum Mindy Haskins Rogers, who broke the story of a history and culture of sexual abuse in the district in her...
As we read articles and social-media posts touting opportunities for pop-up musicians around town and adding vibrancy to more drab spaces in town (such as the alley way by the Transportation Center), I sincerely hope that we are doing so with the goal of community members of all walks of life being able to enjoy spaces and entertainment side by side with one another. As more and more studies are showing, isolation and ostracization of groups of people directly feeds...
A group of local musicians will perform Gimme Shelter, a show to benefit the Brattleboro Overflow Winter Shelter on Sunday, Jan. 18, at 2:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on Main Street. The musicians, along with technicians for the show, are donating their time and talent, so all proceeds will go directly to heating the First Baptist Church, which houses the shelter. For a donation of $10 or more, concert attendees will be entertained in the Baptist Church, which...
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