DUMMERSTON — It's sad when you're a devoted employee for decades and when you leave it's no big thing to an employer.
People wonder why no one wants to work at one place for long.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
Of the 35 proposals from artists who responded to a call for public art to reflect and inspire the community, 13 will move forward in the process. The town is seeking a public art piece - either visual or performance - as part of a federal Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The project will connect the community to the arts, “magnify the role arts play in Brattleboro,” and inspire the community to create more public...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-As the culmination of Inclusive Arts Vermont's "Cycles" exhibit, featuring work by 25 Vermont artists with disabilities, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church will host two interactive workshops on Saturday, Aug. 17, at 1 and 2:30 p.m. Admission is free to the inclusive event, suitable for adults and children alike. The first workshop is designed for families of children with disabilities. Participants will have a chance to explore the exhibition, make art, and connect in the gallery space, which offers...
On Aug. 13, I stood on Main Street, Brattleboro, with my two friends, Daniel Sicken and Bill Pearson, to protest the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons. Here is what I learned while standing in solidarity with them: Nuclear weapons are against international law, and the United States (legally) violates that law. How can this conclusion be made? The United Nations' Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons outlaws the development, manufacture, testing, possession, transfer, acquisition, stockpiling, use or threat...
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