La Paz, El Salvador News

In a move that expands Prescott's Sister City sphere to a new continent, the Prescott City Council finalized its partnership with Zeitz, Germany this week.

At 10 a.m. worship Sunday, Feb. 3, the Rev. Carra McFadden, pastor of Centre Congregational Church in downtown Brattleboro, will preach on "That's Just the Way It Is" and celebrate Holy Communion.

After more than 25 years of imagining how her mother and five younger brothers were killed by the Army during El Salvador's brutal civil war, MarA a Angelica Escobar got used to the nightmares.

When the lights went down inside a grand hall in Washington D.C. last winter, Cynthia Benoit-Sarrazin had shivers watching the young, Salvadoran theatre group Es Artes perform before an audience of several hundred cultural dignitaries.

The rasp of the guiros, the taps of the snares, the banging of bass drums combined Sunday with the rhythmic flow of the trombone, saxophone and trumpet to form a cumbia, a style of music from Latin America heavy on percussion.