BRATTLEBORO — It's a sad day when a writer loses a job. I hope Pat Smith and Mike Fahar find meaningful work that will continue to contribute to their community.
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
Details about the event appear in a news story this issue. BRATTLEBORO-On June 14, Flag...
BENNINGTON, VERMONT / ZIKHRON YAAKOV, ISRAEL-The Shalom Alliance is working to advance the cause of...
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons has recently published a number of commentaries and letters to the editor regarding...
Members of the Marlboro College community will gather in a “Vigil for the Silenced” during the college's board of trustees meeting on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 9:30 a.m. To accommodate larger crowds, the meeting has been moved to Ragle Hall in Serkin Center at 2528 South Rd. Pre-registration for the vigil is requested. “Marlboro College Board of Trustees has called a 'special,' or 'emergency' meeting,” Amy Domrad Tudor, organizer of the vigil and a Marlboro College alumna and longtime Marlboro...
BRATTLEBORO-This month's edition of the Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour, on Friday, May 17, at 5 p.m., presents Edward O'Keefe, author of The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President in an online conversation with Michael Cullinane about Theodore Roosevelt and the women in his life. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon...
On Jan. 5, a strong wind storm toppled a dead tree onto some power and phone lines, snapping off the top of a utility pole and knocking out our electricity, phone, and Internet. This took place on an unplowed section of Old Cheney Road in Jamaica near the Windham border. It affected only five homes, including ours in South Windham. We immediately called Green Mountain Power and FairPoint to report the outages. Within two hours, GMP had two workers there...
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