BRATTLEBORO — Integrity is a rare word these days. Susan Keese had it!
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...
Over the first several years of his tenure, Gov. Peter Shumlin made no secret of his desire to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. And since the Vernon facility stopped producing power at the end of 2014, Shumlin's administration has repeatedly challenged plant owner Entergy's decommissioning plans - often without much success, given that the process is mostly federally regulated. It will be up to Shumlin's successor to set the tone for the state's interactions with Entergy starting in...
Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal St., presents its 'Art For All' seasonal group show, sharing the gifts from the many artists of the region and marking the Gallery's third year. The show opens Nov. 15, with an opening reception with the artists on Bellows Falls 3rd Friday Gallery Night from 5 to 8 p.m. The Gallery is open Wednesday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will be open on Sundays in December. Art For All is...
Just 22 miles straight up - the distance from Brattleboro, Vt. to Greenfield, Mass. - we see our sun not in a beautiful blue sky but as a churning star in the vast black of space. Earth, our cozy home, is insulated from the harshness of space by a thin blanket of atmosphere - the equivalent thickness of an apple skin around a large apple. Plants, and microorganisms in the oceans, daily replenish the oxygen supply of our nourishing and...
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