What a lovely piece! It's so hard to make such a huge sacrifice, even when we know it's the best and right thing to do.
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...
Just before last year's general election, participants at the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Conference talked up the possibility of the nation's first black president welcoming the first female commander-in-chief. Then Donald Trump won. Attendees at the 2017 event this past week could have lost themselves in present-day headlines reporting a proposed travel ban targeting Muslims, fights over Confederate monuments and a flood of workplace sexual harassment claims. Instead, they focused on the future. “The new resident in...
In a community celebration of spring, the Blanche Moyse Chorale joins the Windham Orchestra and Windham County high-school choirs in two performances of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Carmina! A Concinnity of Choral Community Collaboration! will feature student singers from Brattleboro Union High School, Bellows Falls Union High School, Leland & Grey Union High School, and The Putney School. They will be joined by the Blanche Moyse Chorale and the Windham Orchestra under the baton of Hugh Keelan. Performances are Friday,
The unfortunate situation at the Brattleboro Retreat underlines the importance of strong unions and the support of workers' rights. The display of power, disruption, and fear that management has offered as leadership is a sickening reminder of the destruction of workers' rights that has been going on since Ronald Reagan began attacking these rights 40 years ago. In this climate of fear and desperation, management exploits workers for maximum profits. Union power and influence has been steadily eroding, relentlessly attacked...
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