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.
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
At the 2019 Annual Town Meeting, voters in Dummerston and Putney might vote on whether the municipalities should enter into a partnership to co-own the Renaud Gravel Pit. The pit, on Route 5 in Dummerston, supplies both towns with gravel. During Selectboard meetings in September in both towns, board members respectively introduced the proposal, after receiving the offer from Mike Renaud, the gravel pit's owner. Renaud confirmed with The Commons that he is interested in selling the gravel pit to...
The acoustic jazz ensemble Rhythm Future Quartet has a straightforward agenda: to keep the spirit of Gypsy jazz alive and expanding in today's musical universe. The foursome will be doing just that in their Stone Church Arts' performance in the Chapel at Immanuel Episcopal Church, 20 Church St., on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. According to a news release, the group, named for a Django Reinhardt tune, will offer up “a newly minted sound, influenced by the classic Hot...
Regarding the “no-fault eviction”: Wrong! It should be called “no-fault termination”! I have been a landlord in Brattleboro since 1969. Because I am self-employed, no pension, I saw owning rental property as an opportunity to provide for my old age! All my apartments have one-year leases, which allows a tenant not to renew after one year. Why should the owner not have the same opportunity? If you have a good tenant, you hope to keep that person. However, sometimes it...
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