Congrats to Michael Obuchowski! I wish I could have been there at the Windham County Democrats' Obie Awards. Keep swinging!
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
Details about the event appear in a news story this issue. BRATTLEBORO-On June 14, Flag...
BENNINGTON, VERMONT / ZIKHRON YAAKOV, ISRAEL-The Shalom Alliance is working to advance the cause of...
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons has recently published a number of commentaries and letters to the editor regarding...
“He was covered in ticks and, worse, he was just fur and bones,” said Cassandra Holloway. “I had no idea how long he had been there” On July 4, when Holloway found Farmer by the porch of her mother's house in West Townshend, it had been months since she had last seen the Border Collie/Bernese mix. Though he had wagged his tail and barked in happy recognition, Holloway remembers that for her, that Independence Day was filled with mixed emotions.
Paul Bowen is a sculptor, printmaker, and master of assemblage from found objects. His work is in both public and private collections, and he has exhibited worldwide in galleries and museums, including the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. Bowen was born in Wales, lived in Provincetown, Mass., for 30 years, and now resides with his wife, Pamela Mandell, in Williamsville. From 1972 to 1974, he was a Hoffberger Fellow at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, and from 1977 to 1979...
I have listened with great interest to the rhetoric concerning the removal of Confederate monuments and the demonstrations about such actions. The problem is that all this just does not go far enough. We must not just destroy in order to save, we must address the hearts and minds of the Philistines. We are ignoring the greatest danger of all, especially to our children: books and, to some extent, film. Take Gone with the Wind as an example of a...
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