RE: “Remembering Kate” [Memoir, April 25].
A courageous and touching personal story, beautifully told. Thank you, Mary Ellen Copeland!
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...
At her second meeting since formation of a new Windham Southeast Supervisory Union school board, Chair Michelle Luetjen Green admitted that the hiring process to select a new superintendent raised “concerns that we did not secure a fair process for all applicants to be reviewed, assessed, and deliberated on.” She told The Commons that her words are a “personal statement that I felt should be acknowledged sooner than later.” Her comment came at the same March 30 meeting where parent...
The paths of trumpeter Howard Brofsky and saxophonist Jimmy Heath have crossed frequently over the past 30 years. Both jazzmen share an appreciation of jazz and bebop, held faculty posts at Queens College, and occupied the same stage on numerous occasions. Now, at age 85, Brofsky and Heath will cross paths again when they take the stage together at the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) for a concert, “Howard Brofsky and Friends,” on Saturday, May 19, at 8 p.m. at the...
When Bill Holiday first started seeing articles in the Reformer about Vietnam, it was probably after June 1965. Charles Armour, Mike Canova, Jack Gouger, and I had graduated that month, and 10 days later we were standing tall on the infamous “yellow footprints” at Parris Island. That is where we first learned that there were two kinds of Marine: those who were in Vietnam and those who were going! I guess we were naive back then. Growing up in Brattleboro...
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