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Issue #791
BRATTLEBORO-The Downtown Brattleboro Alliance (DBA), in partnership with Brattleboro Flea, has announced the opening of Market on Main, a seasonal holiday market which organizers say "will transform ...
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Tolerance is not a threat
BRATTLEBORO-Tom Nolan objects angrily to Brattleboro Common Sense's remarks about the banners in the Dummerston School. Please ignore the irrelevant details about the climate committee which he ...
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Refugees and asylum seekers brace for new political winds
BRATTLEBORO-Once you have lived through a civil war, or been beaten and tortured and starved, or watched your family killed in front of your eyes, and then taken a dangerous route to find safety for ...
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Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it for your publication in the hope that it might give people of other traditions encouragement to articulate ...
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‘Sing Nowell’ will benefit Groundworks
BRATTLEBORO-On Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m., the Latchis Theatre will ring again with the sounds of Sing Nowell: Songs & Carols for Midwinter & Christmastide. This is the third year of the community ...
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Holiday Market to illuminate vacant storefront with local art, gifts
BRATTLEBORO-The Downtown Brattleboro Alliance (DBA), in partnership with Brattleboro Flea, has announced the opening of Market on Main, a seasonal holiday market which organizers say "will transform ...
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Brattleboro Women's Chorus presents fall concert
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Women's Chorus (BWC) presents its fall concert, "We Toast the Days," on Nov. 23 and 24, at 4 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center. Under the direction of chorus founder ...
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Why Trump won, big
TUCSON, ARIZ. AND HEATH, MASS.-John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in his 1983 analysis of power that power rests in the power of persuasion. Persuasion requires effective communication of words, thoughts, ...
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Sage advice: Do not obey
ATHENS-In the days ahead, I would suggest that we all consider the advice of Lesson #1 from Yale professor Timothy Snyder's book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. "Do not obey in ...
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David Becker at Stage 33 Live
BELLOWS FALLS-Grammy- and Emmy-nominated guitarist David Becker brings his "Planets" solo tour to Stage 33 Live on Saturday, Nov. 23, for a 7 p.m. performance. He's been selling out theaters in Japan, ...
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Will we stop laying blame and start repairing our nation?
NEWFANE-I was called out, by name, in a letter in the Voices section. About halfway down the page I was challenged to answer a few questions that had nothing to do with the point of my original letter ...