Membership fees for Brattleboro Time Trade are $60 per year. The wrong amount was reported in the May 14 edition of The Commons.
Trees precariously balanced on power lines, dragging them down to the ground, surrounded by darkened...
BRATTLEBORO-Actions taken by the town of Brattleboro to remove encampments of homeless individuals in recent...
BRATTLEBORO-Busing issues in the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) caused real mayhem last week on...
BELLOWS FALLS-WOOL-FM 91.5 Black Sheep Radio in Bellows Falls is celebrating its 20th anniversary this...
Windham County Sheriff Keith Clark took an extended, public drubbing for his now-defunct Liberty Mill Justice Center proposal, and he admits the experience left him “bloodied a little bit.” But Clark is unbowed in his quest for new programs that he believes could change Vermont's criminal justice system and bolster local law enforcement. In fact, he insists that nearly all aspects of the Liberty Mill plan - aside from the controversial detention center - remain feasible in the not-so-distant future.
Amherst College professor Judith Frank will explore the unique approaches taken by Edward P. Jones in writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World, in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on June 6 at 7 p.m. Frank's talk, “The Known World and the Literary Character,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. (This talk was rescheduled from March 7.) The Known World, which won the...
The compassion demonstrated by our town for Stanley Lynde and Laura D'Angelo has been extraordinary. If anyone ever doubts that Brattleboro is indeed part of the Charter for Compassion and has internalized its spirit, all that person has to do is look at the town's response to Stanley and Laura's terrible accident and Stanley's subsequent death - including the unparalleled financial support covering medical costs: more than 900 people contributing over $90,000. The New England Youth Theatre mentors felt privileged...
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