DUMMERSTON — Randolph Holhut writes about sports with remarkable precision and imagination.
We also appreciate the balanced tone of his Sports Roundup columns, which are never biased toward a particular team.
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, Mollie Burke, Michael Mrowicki, and Zon Eastes are state representatives; Nader...
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
A planned display of the Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall in September at Moore Field on Putney Road has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The wall will instead come to town beginning Sept. 16, 2021. In a letter to The Commons, Len Derby, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Chapter 843, said he was making the announcement “with great sadness.” The local VVA chapter started doing its planning and fundraising last fall to bring the wall to...
BELLOWS FALLS-The Future Climate Film Festival, produced by Merlyn Climate Grants and hosted by The Nature Museum, invites the community to an afternoon celebrating the powerful voices of national and international artists. On Saturday, Nov. 2, from 2 to 5 p.m., the Bellows Falls Opera House will host this event, showcasing 10 films from four continents. "Drama, documentary, comedy, and award-winning animation address our many possible climate futures," museum staff wrote in a news release. "The films explore the multifaceted...
Winter world turns toward darkness, snow forms into mountains, snow covers the streets in a blanket of snow, white feathers fly overhead, drifting down over us as if we are held in a snow globe. Now the cat stretches and yawns. He has no care about the weather. He will not trudge to the hardware store, where I get two sacks of litter and the salesperson is kind in her concern. “Are you walking?” she asks. “1 don't think you...
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