PUTNEY — RE: “Brattleboro task force asks: What can we do about parking?” [The Commons, May 2].
Parking spaces are real estate - real estate that is not earning its full value.
Parking rates should be higher than they are.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
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Does the United States still believe in the separation between church and state? This is one of the big questions making big waves in Vermont right now. In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court's Carson v. Makin decision required states with voucher systems to offer them to religious schools as well as to secular ones. Vermont education often depends on vouchers because this small state has a limited number of schools. Some towns do not have a high school. Some of...
On Dec. 2, a cluster of townspeople and arts followers gathered for a public meet-the-artists evening to hear plans for a new community arts project - a mosaic mural for Pliny Park at the corner of Main and High streets. The work will be mounted on the south side of the building - owned by the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce - that frames the park at its north end. In the warmly lit, well-appointed gathering space of Epsilon Spires,
BRATTLEBORO-For the fall semester at Vermont State College, I have been asked to teach on the Holocaust. As always, I endeavor to cross-pollinate that which I study and teach with that which I preach. A friend recently loaned me Confronting Genocide: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, edited by Steven Leonard Jacobs, and it includes a chapter written by Stephen R. Haynes, "'Death Was Everywhere, Even in Front of the Church': Christian Faith and the Rwandan Genocide." Haynes writes: "Genocidal Rwanda is reminiscent...
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