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Issue #789
MARLBORO-Next Stage Arts and Potash Hill present a free community concert by Jack Quartet, on Friday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m., at Ragle Hall on the campus of the former Marlboro College. This fall, the ...
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Prison Educator Fired For Writing a Poem
On Oct. 24, I was fired by the Vermont Department of corrections for having written a poem: Elegy to Gary Partridge. Partridge was a student of mine at Southern States Correctional Facility who died ...
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Canal Street Art Gallery announces new Solo Show Program open to all artists
BELLOWS FALLS-Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal St., presents the Solo Show Program, offering an exhibition schedule of small, eight-week long shows of varying sizes open to all artists. Solo shows, ...
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Farcical framing of ethnic cleansing
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons' "difficult conversation" op-ed notes that "several hundred thousand" innocents were displaced. Indeed, that number was forced from their homes and into camps - back in 1948.
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Elegy for Gary Partridge
Ben Mitchell most recently worked as a corrections educator at the Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. He has had a long career as an educational administrator and consultant, and he ...
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Artists find ‘great opportunity to grow’
NEWFANE-Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., is now featuring artwork by the Connecticut River chapter of the Vermont Watercolor Society. As described in its mission statement, the ...
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A ‘Tempestuous Hubbub’ comes to 118 Elliot
BRATTLEBORO-Sparkles, the Giant Evil Clown, presents Turbulence Orchestra & Sub Units performing Tempestuous Hubbub on Saturday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at 118 Elliot Gallery. Led by ...
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A ‘once-in-a-lifetime leader’? That’s a good one!
BELCHERTOWN, MASS.-The Viewpoint by Robert Fritz made me laugh. He's smitten with Kamala Harris, who he calls a "once-in-a-lifetime titan leader." Good one! Harris is no leader, but she is a ...
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What you left out
WILLIAMSVILLE-You inadvertently left out some important historical quotes that give context and credence to what I wrote in my letter. To wit: The Zionist founders were well aware of what they were ...
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Circus Festival features performances, activities
BRATTLEBORO-On Nov. 8, 9, and 10, more than 100 circus artists, students, a traveling circus company, performing alumni, guest coaches, and circus enthusiasts will travel from across the country to ...
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On climate science
GUILFORD-My brother recently spoke with a woman who insisted that global warming is all a hoax. "It's not the Earth's atmosphere getting too warm due to man's emissions," she insisted. "The trouble is ...