Certainly, Vermont should not be adding a dirty-fossil-fuel plant! How about a solar facility with non-toxic aqueous battery storage instead?
Keep moving forward. Don't backslide!
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...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) School Board continues to respond to sexual misconduct claims against former Brattleboro Union High School English teacher Robert “Zeke” Hecker. In a Viewpoint in The Commons [“No more secrecy,” Viewpoint, Aug. 11], Mindy Haskins Rogers exposed a pattern of Hecker's behavior with students, both in and out of the classroom, and material from a 2009 Brattleboro Police Department investigation. That inquiry uncovered and quoted from a letter from Hecker to a survivor where he...
BRATTLEBORO-During May and June, the Vermont Center for Photography (VCP) has been presenting "Presence: The Photographic World of Lotte Jacobi," a major exhibition celebrating the extraordinary career of "one of the 20th century's most significant portrait photographers," according to exhibit organizers. On view through June 29, the exhibit features a wide-ranging selection of Jacobi's photographs, including portraits of Albert Einstein, J.D. Salinger, Billie Holiday, W.E.B. Du Bois, Robert Frost, and Eleanor Roosevelt. "Bringing Lotte Jacobi's work to VCP is both...
As we've moved past yet another grim milestone - 500,000 pandemic deaths - the comparisons to wars in U.S. history reveal another horrific reality. In World Wars I and II, the entire society organized to protect this country. Where is the mobilization today? On the home front, citizens volunteered, funded war bonds, rationed fuel, etc. They planted victory gardens, a symbol of the country's commitment to persevere. Today, we have a coterie of pandemic deniers who regard masking as an...
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