I'm looking forward to a day when dentistry offers a system of care rather than sporadic charity care for the many Vermonters who fall through the cracks.
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...
On May 17, the Selectboard approved a nearly $40,000 feasibility study of a proposal to have the municipal fire department take over local emergency medical services. The final report, however, could bring as many questions as answers. The town government is signing a contract with a Wyoming-based consulting firm, AP Triton, to research the costs, staffing needs, and related challenges of assuming the work of the town's nearly 60-year EMS provider, the private, nonprofit Rescue Inc. Local leaders surprised residents...
RAMParts Presents, in partnership with National Theatre Live, Bolshoi Ballet, and Exhibition on Screen, will bring art, stage, and dance offerings to the big screen of the Bellows Falls Opera house from January through June in 2018. On Sunday, Jan. 14, the National Theatre Live brings Tony Kushner's Angels in America Part 1: Millenium Approaches. This seminal work was begun in the late 1980s, reached Broadway in 1993, and became an HBO mini-series in 2003. This version of the production...
The monument in West Kingston, Rhode Island to the Great Swamp Fight of Dec. 19, 1675 commemorates the vicious clash between colonial militia (and some of their Native American allies) and the Narragansett people. I can trace the portion of me who is a Bosworth back to one of the colonists who fought that day, John Bosworth. While I was growing up, my family was proud that my father's paternal line, though not among the 1620 Pilgrims, had immigrated to...
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