BRATTLEBORO — The Commons will suspend publication for a week so our staff and contributors can recharge their batteries, enjoy the holiday season, and otherwise gird themselves to produce a good newspaper for you in 2016.
The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Jan. 6. Deadline for news and advertising is Friday, Jan. 1.
All of us at Vermont Independent Media and The Commons offer readers best holiday wishes in these waning days of 2015. See you next year.
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Weather buffs and amateur radio operators - who are sometimes the same people - received a treat in early April: training in how to see severe weather coming, and how to report it, from National Weather Service (NWS) Meteorologist-In-Charge Raymond O'Keefe. Every spring and fall, the Albany office of the NWS conducts Skywarn spotter trainings throughout their service region to engage citizens in helping report severe weather events. Windham County's seminar was held at the Grace Cottage Hospital. During his...
In April of 1970, when I was a senior in high school in Pennsylvania, my girlfriend (and now wife of 38 years) and I skipped school and took the local train into Philadelphia to attend the first Earth Day Rally. It was exhilarating to see thousands of young people like us demanding change in how we treated our planet. Back then, littering was commonplace, dumping raw sewage into rivers and streams was the norm, and emissions on factories and cars...
As Marlboro Music gears up to begin its 66th season, the world-famous institution where master artists play with exceptional young professional musicians marked the final month of the 50th anniversary of the Marlboro Music Touring Program. Marlboro Music establishes four groups that tour each year. Three of the tours play in select cities on the East Coast, including New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The fourth tour, usually made up of performers from the three regional tours, plays further afield in...
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