BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Our nuclear spring” [Editorial, March 14].
Once again, The Commons hits the nail on the head! What a great bunch of news people you are.
Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
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BRATTLEBORO-I am a Connecticut-born Yankee American, second-generation Irish immigrant, raised-Catholic, 62-year-old woman working in Brattleboro.
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John Allen, general contractor and a former Selectboard member, stands in the kitchen of a newly constructed house on Maple Street, wiping dust from a green granite countertop with a repurposed T-shirt. He laughs when asked why he's running for a seat on the board. “I should have my head examined,” he said. He smiles again thinking of his first tour of service in 2008 and 2009. “I enjoyed it,” he admits. Allen is one of six candidates running for...
There are stories throughout American history of early settlers' children being abducted and raised among Native tribes for the rest of their lives. However, some stories are less well-known than others. Stuart Strothman's recently published historical novel Sackett tells a lesser-known story of Elizabeth Sackett, a Puritan child abducted at age 5 from Westfield, Mass., and raised among Abenaki Indians. She later married an Abenaki, and their son - known as Sackett - grew up to play a significant role...
A bill is introduced in a state to tax citizens to support the teaching of the Christian religion. Opponents circulate a petition opposing the measure. The petition's author says that no politician is a competent judge of religious truth, that every citizen has the right to religious freedom according to the dictates of their conscience and that the Legislature has no authority at all over religion. He states that Christianity does not require support from the government and that history...
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