BRATTLEBORO — As usual, The Commons will not publish an edition for the last week of the year.
The next issue of the newspaper will appear Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. Deadline for news and advertising is Friday, Dec. 31, to the extent that anyone will be thinking about news and advertising on New Year's Eve.
All of us at Vermont Independent Media wish our readers warm holiday greetings, a safe end of the year, and best wishes for strength, prosperity, and resilience in the months to come.
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The Root Social Justice Center will hold a free BIPOC hair clinic for all ages on Saturday, May 27. As explained in a Facebook post from the racial justice organizing and community group, Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color “have a variety of hair types and textures that require hair care that just isn't centered when we live and exist in predominantly white spaces.” With hair stylists versed in working with BIPOC clients unavailable in the Brattleboro area,
I support Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun in her bid for reelection to a second term in the State House, to represent the Windham-3 District (Brookline, Westminster, and Rockingham). I first interacted with Michelle when the House and Senate redistricting concluded. She reached out to express a willingness to meet and discuss issues that the citizens of Brookline might want to address. In that discussion, she demonstrated knowledge of issues which are important to this district. She has also made time to...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present New England's acclaimed roots, rhythm, and harmony quartet Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem for the fifth concert of the 2021 Next Stage “Bandwagon Summer Series” on Friday, June 4, at 6 p.m., at Cooper Field. The musicians offer four-part vocal harmonies, indelible songs, fiddle, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, and a homemade percussion kit of cardboard boxes, tin cans, caulk tubes, packing-tape tambourines, bottle-cap rattles, Mongolian jaw harps, and a vinyl suitcase.
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