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.
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
Early/absentee ballots for the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 6 are available in all Vermont town clerks' offices. Anyone wishing to vote prior to that date may apply for an early/absentee ballot until 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5. Early/absentee ballots may be voted in person in the clerk's office, mailed to the voter by the clerk's office, picked up by the voter or, if a voter is in need, can be delivered to the voter's residence by two justices...
The record-low election turnout in Vermont's 2014 general election should be a huge wake-up call to Governor Peter Shumlin and other Vermont political leaders. The fact that the majority of people stayed home is a referendum against the status quo. It shows that people have lost faith in the political process and its relevance to their lives. More than 60,000 Democratic voters who voted in 2010 did not participate in 2014. In 2010, anyone affected by the health-care crisis had...
Dartmouth professor Paul Whalen will consider the importance of facial expressions and how the brain reads them in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. His talk, “Face to Face with the Emotional Brain,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. Whether one is sitting around the caveman's fire or the conference table, no signal is more important to humans' interpreting...
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