Thanks so much for publishing such an excellent piece on Dave Shapiro's sad and untimely passing [“How could this happen?”, The Commons, May 4].
I really appreciated that you took the time to look at this in depth.
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues for almost...
The Northwest Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) is a coalition of 14 Quaker congregations in...
This letter was submitted on behalf of Spark faculty. PUTNEY-We, the faculty of the Spark...
Matt Dorsey serves on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He delivered this memoriam to...
Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald has good news about the Brattleboro Police Department's finances and operations. For Fiscal Year 2020, costs are going down by $1,125, signifying a 0.1 percent reduction from the department's FY19 budget. Revenue is also estimated to go down by just over 11 percent, but nearly all of this reduction will provide some relief to overworked officers. Fitzgerald appeared at the budget-related special Selectboard meeting on Nov. 13 to provide details and figures on his department's proposed...
Fantastical creatures fashioned out of glass, a huge and growing map of an imaginary world, a suite of prints by one of Vermont's best-loved artists, and artwork inspired by astronauts' impressions of the earth from space - all this and more will be on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) when four new exhibits open during Brattleboro's monthly Gallery Walk on Friday, Nov. 1, at 5:30 p.m. Many of the exhibiting artists will be in attendance at...
I find several reasons to take issue with Kurt Daims's piece. I question both its premises and its conclusions. Specifically, the idea that one should adopt a 224-page report and its 41 recommendations without examining the details included within, how the information was gathered, and each recommendation individually is clearly incorrect. The Community Safety Review Committee and its two facilitators did a tremendous amount of work in a short period of time, and their work deserves a close look, not...
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