There are many of us who worked with Tim Johnson in Brattleboro and Springfield before moving on to so-called “bigger and better things” in the radio biz.
And yet, Tim has probably made the biggest impact on his listeners' lives.
Kudos to Tim, and - in keeping with the headline topic - it's a shame that local, small-town radio is almost gone.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
The way family and friends describe Emmy Bascom belies the narrative of her last hours of life described in court filings - a path of drugs and alcohol that came as a shock to many people in her orbit. “Drugs change you into somebody completely different,” says a Brattleboro resident, “Lynn.” (At the request of one of the family members involved in this story, The Commons is withholding all their names out of respect for their privacy.) “You do things...
Kenneth V. Scipione wrote self-righteously, and as some kind of expert because his church agrees and he feels abortion is wrong. With that in mind, I suggest he - and the Catholic church - not have an abortion. I also suggest that whatever choices I make for my health and well-being, as well as for my family, is clearly none of his business. Nor that of the church, any church. The Bible repeats the phrase “judge not” several times. I...
Members of the Brattleboro Women's Chorus, led by Director Becky Graber, will perform their fall “HeartSong Singalong” via Zoom on Sunday, Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. “Some of the songs are very easy to join along with, and Becky will teach a song or two to all,” organizers write in a news release. After over a year of singing exclusively on Zoom, this fall the chorus was able to sing in person as well, recording song tracks that provide the...
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