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.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
On Monday morning, a pair of moving vans waited patiently in the Harmony Lot. Inside the vans was the first load of furniture and files bound for the new Community College of Vermont/Vermont Technical College academic center at 41 Harmony Place, at the rear of the Brooks House. Both institutions are moving in this week - CCV from its Landmark Hill site off Putney Road, and Vermont Tech's Thompson School of Nursing from the Vermont Agriculture Business Education Center on...
The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library are hosting an exhibit of “The Altered Book.” The exhibit will be on display through April 4 on the Main Floor of the Library. Friends' board member Amir Flesher states that “altered books are defined as works of art not just by the physical changes made to the book, but also by the ways in which the artist enters into a thematic and artistic dialogue with the original.” Mosaic artist and teacher Susan Rosano...
Fran Lynggaard Hansen, a Brattleboro native with deep connections to local history and to people everywhere, is a Commons reporter and columnist. The Chinese town of Hangzhou is the place where centuries ago the silk industry began. Since it was only a few hours from the school where I worked, I took a bus there for a long weekend and explored the city's many silk museums and traditional gardens. When traveling alone, I begin with a list of must-see places...
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