The truck driver person with the “angry stickers” is just exercising his, or her, First Amendment rights on their own truck!
God bless America (my First Amendment right to say, so exercised).
Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
The Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) has identified 90 school-aged children and youth in the district who are experiencing homelessness. This is 10 more than were identified last year and includes about seven "unaccompanied youth" - older teenagers who are separated from a parent or guardian. Tricia Hill is the district's McKinney-Vento liaison (named for the federal legislation that funds the position), required at every school district that receives Title I funds. In this position, Hill identifies homeless youth and...
BRATTLEBORO-Banned from Utopia, a Frank Zappa tribute band featuring more of the late musician's former band members than any other group currently touring, will roll into the Stone Church for a throwdown on Saturday, Aug. 3. "I know of another four Zappa tribute acts - they are all over the place," Scott Thunes, Zappa's longest-tenured bassist who served from 1981 to 1988, said in a recent phone call with The Commons. Thunes, a trusted member of the band, held the...
All the food we eat comes with a carbon footprint. According to The New York Times's Climate Fwd: newsletter, “[a]bout a quarter of all planet-warming greenhouse gasses emitted each year are a result of how we feed the world.” Another 8 percent of greenhouse gases are the direct result of how much food we waste. Bringing reusable shopping bags to the grocery store is a small step toward a better environment, but what we choose to put in those bags...
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