Brattleboro is getting a shining Starr who has led, inspired, and ignited Building Brighter Futures for Broome, an agency that offers early childhood literacy strategies and supports!
Thank you, Starr LaTronica, for sharing your gifts and passion!
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...
At their regular meeting on June 12, the Selectboard unanimously voted to warn a Special Town Meeting for July 19. Although Dollar General has inspired this Special Town Meeting, opponents of the chain discount store's plans to build on the site of Lawrence's Smoke House might be too late to stop the development. With a purchase-and-sale contract signed by the owner of the parcel, unless Dollar General backs out because of contingencies like floodplain regulations, the project will move forward.
As he relocates it to his home studio in West Brattleboro, Michael Moyse hopes to jump start the innovative art center he founded more than two decades ago with a free workshop. On Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 18 and 19, The Center for Digital Art (with support from C.X. Silver Gallery) is hosting an intensive exploration of digital arts at 81 Pleasant Valley Rd. The event is a collaboration between Moyse and Chinese video artist Le Xi. The two-day program...
BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by on the right-hand side as I was about to turn onto Oak Street. I'm just supposed to see them when they come out of nowhere. Or I go past the town garage and someone doesn't stop and rolls into the intersection from Elm Street. I have to slam on my brakes so hard that everything starts sliding to the floor, because they decided to pull...
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