BRATTLEBORO — The Archer Mayor bit seems irrelevant and insensitive. I'm surprised you let this go to print.
I expect better from The Commons.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
BRATTLEBORO-What a depressing time to celebrate Independence Day, as No. 47 and his obedient and...
Sarah Ellis is a writer and mental health advocate who grew up in Brattleboro and...
BRATTLEBORO-Analysis of Brattleboro's Charter Revision Survey reveals growing dissatisfaction with the current Representative Town Meeting...
Officials with the Guilford Free Library announced their capital improvement plans at the May 30 regular Selectboard meeting. The plans are still in the preliminary phase. Cathi Wilken, librarian, and Laura Lawson Tucker, chair of the Board of Trustees, brought their ideas to the Selectboard to get members' advice and approval. “The purpose for coming [...] is to have strong, clear communication between the Trustees and the Selectboard,” Tucker said. Tucker said the Board of Trustees recently drafted a strategic...
On Thursday, May 26, at 7:30 p.m., Yellow Barn's summer venue, the Big Barn on Main Street in Putney, will open its doors early for a special concert to benefit the Ukrainian people. Russian pianist Boris Berman will perform works by his close friend and colleague, Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Soon after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Berman called another of his colleagues, Yellow Barn's artistic director Seth Knopp, to relay the story of Silvestrov's perilous escape from Ukraine and to...
Might as well get out of bed and start preparing for my first practice train run on the mainline tonight from 1900 to 0300. I'll be honest and admit that this job wasn't my first choice, or even second or third. Right now, it is a means to paying the bills. I had another train dream. In this one, I committed every grievous sin short of running an interlocking signal. I was horsing around in the train cab with a...
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