GUILFORD — Many thanks to the generous and caring staff at Hannaford for making our shopping trip there such an enjoyable and successful event.
We prepared 28 baskets, each of which provided a complete Thanksgiving dinner for a local family.
AmÉe LaTour is a writer for nonprofits and lover of words and human beings. Recovery...
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
In 1974, during the fall of his senior year at Brattleboro Union High School, Steve Barrett joined the Brattleboro Fire Department as an on-call firefighter. He's been serving the town ever since. Forty-seven years later, Barrett's long career of serving his town - including 41 years with the Public Works Department - is winding down. He will be retiring as public works director on Dec. 18, which gives him plenty of time to bring his successor, Assistant Public Works Director...
PUTNEY-NXT Gallery presents "Water: Shape and Time," an exhibition of Nick Ellison's palladiotypes - photographs created in a process that uses platinum. The exhibit runs Saturday, Nov. 16, through Feb. 9, 2025, with an opening reception Sunday, Nov. 17, from 3 to 5 p.m. "Nick Ellison reminds us that time is a critical element of photography," gallery staff write in a news release. "From exposure to development to printing, each step in the process is defined by time." That time...
I just need to vent. Our country is in an utter-bullshit, ridiculous, and embarrassing state with the namby-pamby bipartisanship stranglehold of our country and its citizens over something as ridiculous and politically paralyzing as our current president's idea of keeping people out of our country. We need, if you will, people in government locally who have an understanding and compassion for all they serve. This approach should spill out to countries around the world, prompting them to come together. How...
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