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.
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...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
Kindle Farm School High School Program Supervisor Kendall Edkins has been hosting weekly metal detecting classes at the school for high school and middle school students. Edkins, of Walpole, N.H., said when he scouts locations to search for artifacts buried beneath the ground, he focuses on the history. “Everything kind of has some history,” he said. Edkins said that Brattleboro has a lot of fields and old homes, and “my personal favorite places to go are like the old foundations,
In anticipation of National Sexual Abuse Awareness Month, Brooks Memorial Library, The Women's Freedom Center, and The Commons are collaborating with writer and educator Deborah Lee Luskin in Telling Our Stories, a free writing workshop for survivors of sexual abuse and violence. Luskin will facilitate the workshop at the library, 224 Main St., on three Saturdays: March 14 and 21 and April 4 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. An advocate from the Women's Freedom Center will be present to...
On Aug. 11, primary voters had the difficult task of choosing two Democratic candidates to represent Windham-3 in the Vermont House of Representatives in the general election on Nov. 3. I am very grateful to have been chosen as one of those two. I would be both humbled and honored to serve Windham-3 as our state representative, and I want to take my focus on problem-solving to the State House to take on the difficult challenges in health care, our...
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