Truly unhinged: In the name of “the idea of coming together,” Randolph T. Holhut doubles down on division.
Everything despicable about the neoliberal “New Dems” emerges in this rant.
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...
Vermont Yankee's radioactive spent fuel soon will be on the move. In April, a contractor will begin loading the shut-down Vernon nuclear plant's fuel into sealed casks, which will be placed on a concrete pad. The fuel is not going far: The pad is a short walk from the plant's reactor building, where thousands of spent fuel assemblies currently are stored. But the move is important for two reasons: It's central to a proposed sale of Vermont Yankee, and it...
The Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Series presents "Castle of Our Skins: Love and Justice" on Saturday, March 30. This portrait concert, set for 7 p.m. at the BMC, features the music of Adolphus Hailstork, and includes such works as Deep River rhapsody for string quartet, "Who Is Sylvia?" Sanctum rhapsody for viola and piano, String Quartet No. 2, Variations on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and "Summer. Life. Song." Hailstork has written numerous works for chorus, solo voice, piano, organ, various...
PUTNEY-Thank you, Commons and Richard Evers, for publishing this honest piece on the war on Gaza. Too often throughout this sickening attack on Gazans, the majority of whom are children, the reporting has been strongly biased from the Israeli military point of view without questioning the veracity. The same does not hold true when Palestinians are interviewed; their comments are often qualified as in need of verification. During World War II, close to 500,000 Jews were crowded into the Warsaw...
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