BRATTLEBORO — The Commons will suspend publication for a week so our staff and contributors can recharge their batteries, enjoy the rest of the holiday season, and otherwise gird themselves to produce a good newspaper for you in 2017.
The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Jan. 11. Deadline for news and advertising is Friday, Jan. 6.
All of us at Vermont Independent Media and The Commons offer readers best holiday wishes in these waning days of 2016. See you next year.
BELLOWS FALLS-In May, a community group will begin unveiling its work on a $37,000 study...
WINDHAM-Parents in the Windham School District, who sought via a lawsuit to have the district...
BRATTLEBORO-Talk to anybody about Vermont's housing crisis, and the subject of high construction costs will...
BRATTLEBORO-JoAnne Rogers has been a member of the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Auxiliary since 1993. "I...
FairPoint honors Lillie for 20 years of service in telecom industry SOUTH BURLINGTON - FairPoint Communications recently recognized Local Installation and Maintenance Operations Manager Chris Lillie with a 20-year service anniversary award by Vice President of Northern New England Field Operations Rich Murtha. Lillie oversees the Brattleboro and Bennington offices. He began his career with the company as an installation and maintenance technician based out of the Milton office. He remembers being hired during a time when there was a...
Thanks for the piece about this important lifesaving drug. A follow-up piece - one addressing the legal issues around the use of Narcan (naloxone) by non-medical professionals, and the legal repercussions of calling 911 as a witness to a probable overdose - would be most helpful. As the article mentioned, folks might be administering Narcan without calling for professional emergency response. One reason might be ignorance of the possible legal consequences for the person reporting an overdose as well as...
Project HOPE facilitator Amber Paris will offer two free, open-materials, page-making workshops at the Putney Public Library in February. Paris has initiated project HOPE's “Community Book of Hope” at the Library as a collaborative, community effort. Artists and writers of all ages are invited to give work created around the prompt: “hope is...” which will be collectively hand-bound into a book that will remain at the Library. Workshop dates are Monday, Feb. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., and Sunday,
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