BRATTLEBORO — I agree the wording on the ballot seemed biased.
The issue is the amendments were poor options for the most part, regardless of how they were presented.
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...
Landmark College journalism student William Epifanio contributed reporting to the July 3 Special Focus section “Flying signs.” The Commons attributed him incorrectly in the credits for that project.
Brattleboro Music Center's groundbreaking on Guilford Street started with a fanfare and ended with a group photograph. Between musical interludes, Johann Sebastian Bach acted as master of ceremonies. The music center turns 40 this year, and its trustees and staff have labored on and off for about 20 years to find a new classroom and performance facility. Earlier this year, the organization announced its purchase of the former Winston Prouty Center building off Guilford Street. The Prouty Center moved its...
Shortly after a devastating 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, tens of thousands of children were left homeless, abandoned or without family. In Croix-des-Bouquets, Pastor Duckens Janvier, and his wife, Madame Deslourdes, opened their home and their hearts to 40 orphaned and homeless children. Duckens and Delourdes are Mami and Papi to these children, who live with the Janviers and the couple's three biological children on less than half an acre of land. By chance, Brattleboro resident Mariam...
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