BRATTLEBORO — Shela Linton has always been awesome for Brattleboro. She wants to empower other people.
In light of this kind of commitment, activism becomes clear as humanitarianism.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
The house at 1062 Grassy Brook Road isn't visible to passersby. But it is a big property in every sense of the word: 9,880 square feet of living space on a 292 acre spread that includes two covered bridges. A real estate listing trumpets the Montana log home as a “secret escape into the wild” with “million-dollar views.” The property also has loomed large in town affairs, as Brookline officials and the home's builder engaged in a prolonged, expensive tax...
Marlboro College's Music for a Sunday Afternoon series features a concert by the award-winning Heath Quartet on Sunday, April 6, at 3 p.m. in Ragle Hall. They will perform a program of Beethoven, Bartók, and Mendelssohn as the kickoff of a debut tour in the United States that includes Carnegie Hall. The Heath Quartet (www.heathquartet.com) are Oliver Heath and Cerys Jones on violin, Gary Pomeroy on viola, and Christopher Murray on cello. All four are faculty members at Guildhall School...
Nancy Gassett is the Republican Party nominee for state representative of the Windham-1 district, which encompasses Vernon and Guilford. VERNON-What are the qualifications to be a Vermont elected legislator/representative? We can all read, if we choose, the abundance of letters written about candidates that are printed in the opinion pages and letters sections of newspapers, as well as the social media posts during the months leading up to every election. This 2024 election season is no different. It seems obvious...
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