Having had a musical education myself, I found Laura Stevenson's explanation of her adjustment to a cochlear implant very informative.
What patience is required for a mother to help a child who has received a CI to learn to hear.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
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...
New England Youth Theatre will present Blue Stockings, by Jessica Swale, directed by Hallie Flower, at 7 p.m. on April 12 and 13, and at 2 p.m. on April 13, at NEYT, 100 Flat St. The year is 1896. Girton College, Cambridge, is the first college in Britain to admit women, and the Girton girls study ferociously to match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the women leave with nothing but the stigma of being...
In recent weeks, The Commons has presented well-reasoned arguments for and against increasing Brattleboro's local-option sales tax. Penned by local business owner Nancy Braus (against the increase) and Selectboard member Tim Wessel (pro increase), these were valuable contributions to the public debate. Unfortunately, the public servant chose to step beyond the merits of the increase and question whether the business owner even has a legitimate role in the discussion. “I ask that Nancy, and other shopkeepers who are not Brattleboro...
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