It's about time! I've had enough of institutions like the Brattleboro Retreat stealing our hard-earned tax dollars in the name of “mental health.”
We should all applaud whistleblower Thomas Joseph and anyone like him. Well done!
AmÉe LaTour is a writer for nonprofits and lover of words and human beings. Recovery...
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
Voters chose numbers over letters at Monday night's Town Meeting. Despite the Vernon Public Library Board of Trustees' pleas to leave the budget alone, enough townspeople agreed with the Selectboard's claim that Vernon can't afford the library it currently has. Rejecting a petition from Library Director Kris Berberian, voters affirmed a library budget of $70,000 for fiscal year 2018. This represents a 38 percent reduction from fiscal 2017's budget. In December, after the Selectboard approved the $70,000 budget, Berberian successfully...
An engaging confection of romance, danger, and paranoia, The 39 Steps, a play by Patrick Barlow now in production by the Vermont Theatre Company, is based on the 1935 film that catapulted Alfred Hitchcock to international fame - and which, in turn, was based on The Thirty-Nine Steps, a 1915 novel by Scottish author John Buchan. Though it flirts with parody, this hilarious play still manages to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. While visiting London, Canadian...
GUILFORD-Some may say that the Trump presidency is threatening our democracy. In fact, we are no longer living in a democracy. This is not a political view, it is based on the actions of the Trump regime. If we no longer have a democracy and are moving into totalitarianism, what are our options? It appears there are only two: totalitarianism and fascism, or popular resistance of such a magnitude that the tables are overturned and Trump and his thugs are...
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