I love the sketch by Karen Becker of the chorus singing. How refreshing it is to have a drawing done on the site of local activities.
Would that The Commons have more illustrations like this one.
Michael Gigante, Ph.D. notes: "This is a piece I wrote after the first Trump election...
ATHENS-A group of morally confused Brattleboro citizens have petitioned onto the March 4 Town Meeting...
DUMMERSTON-Dear Gov. Scott, You enjoy a broad, bipartisan base of support here in Vermont, elected...
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Human Services Committee submitted recommended funding for human services nonprofits...
What do Youth Services, Vermont Yankee, the Brattleboro Farmers' Market, and Act 250 have in common? At one time, they were the projects no one tackled. And then, they were tackled by the Windham Regional Commission (WRC). Founded in 1965 as the first regional commission in Vermont, the WRC celebrated its half-century with 150 guests at a June 23 gala. Guests crammed into The Stephen and Nita Lowey International Center at the School for International Training, drinks in one hand,
I've been watching the national effort to politicize Burlington College's demise and am saddened by the venality of our politics and our dangerous ignorance of nonprofit governance. It's endemic in Vermont, where too many of our major nonprofits have limped through a decade or two of unreviewed leadership performance, mission decay, and disconnection from constituents because their boards have no idea what the obligations and liabilities of board members are or even what board service means. * * * I...
One of the last films of the silent era, Josef von Sternberg's The Docks of New York (1929, 75 minutes) will be shown at Epsilon Spires on Friday, June 2, at 8:30 p.m. The screening will feature live accompaniment from pianist Donald Sosin and soprano Joanna Seaton, who are the musicians commissioned by Criterion Collection to create the soundtrack for the 2010 reissue of the film. “Miles of docks wait day and night for strange cargo - and stranger men,”
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