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 Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Karen Marshall, chief of ConnectVT, says Gov. Peter Shumlin's campaign pledge to extend universal broadband access to every last mile by 2013 is on track. Shumlin launched ConnectVT (not to be confused with ConnectVermont, an Agency of Transportation project), shortly after he took office, and Marshall is the standalone entity's sole employee. She has no budget per se and no employees to manage. Her office is on the Fifth Floor of the Pavilion building, where the governor's closest advisors work.
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present Dustbowl Revival, a Venice, Calif.-based roots collective that merges old-school bluegrass, gospel, jug-band, swamp blues and the hot swing of the 1930s, plus the Vermont-based Americana duo Laura Molinelli and Ben Campbell at Next Stage on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m. Known for their inspired live sets, the Dustbowl Revival boldly brings together many styles of traditional American music. “Some call it string band-brass band mash up. Imagine Old Crow Medicine...
In the presidential primary last month, Vermonters made a resounding statement in favor of Bernie Sanders, delivering him a decisive 86-percent win that rendered Hillary Clinton disqualified from gaining any of the state's delegates. Well - except for those pesky superdelegates, who can do whatever they so choose, regardless of what their constituents definitively prove they want. One of those superdelegates: Vermont's less-fiery senator, Patrick Leahy, who has told the press he will cast his heavily weighted vote for Clinton...
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