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.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
The Selectboard has unanimously approved an option agreement that will take property, now occupied by the Brattleboro Reformer, off the real estate market while the town explores moving the police station there. The town is not purchasing the property outright at this time. Purchasing the property at 62 Black Mountain Rd. and moving the police station there will still require approval by both the Selectboard and Representative Town Meeting. This option agreement only keeps the property out of reach from...
Karen Becker will display her monoprints, watercolors, pastels and oils at the Putney Public Library at 55 Main St. during April and May. This collection contains some of Becker's favorite works from the past 25 years. The drawn and painted images primarily focus on themes involving nature. “My paintings celebrate the joy of seeing and beauty of nature,“ Becker says. Becker teaches watercolors to adults in her home and studio on Saturdays in Westminster West. She is a graduate of...
First off, I would like to comment on the statistic that 40 percent of gun sales are done without background checks. This number came from a survey of around 250 people done 20 years ago, before background checks were even required. To continue the use of this discredited statistic shows that no real research has gone on here. I would then ask the reader and the author of this column to think about the opening paragraph. Can anyone honestly think...
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