BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Sherri Keefe, for your efforts to protect others from predation and abuse.
It takes such courage to stand alone in the face of all you're enduring when you tell your story.
Much love and support to you.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan loves his home state. But, he said, it's struggling with an identity crisis. Is the Green Mountain State the agrarian state of the 19th and 20th centuries, with strong communities and values? Or is Vermont part of the global digital economy and, if so, what values do Vermonters need to sacrifice to participate? Donovan, a Democrat, asked that question - and others - during his visit to the weekly noontime gathering of the Brattleboro Rotary...
The New England Musicians Relief Fund (NEMRF) has launched an initiative to reach $500,000 in donations by March 13, the one-year anniversary of when COVID-19 forced the entertainment industry in the region to shut down. Founded in 2020 by a host of Boston-area musicians, union leaders, executives, and music supporters, NEMRF is helping qualified New England musicians weather financial difficulties by providing them with relief checks. NEMRF hopes to provide a meaningful financial boost to help struggling musicians pay the...
After graduating college, I moved back home to Brattleboro for a short time. I started working at an office on the crest of High Street, and every day I'd rumble down the hill on my way home. I'd see one of my favorite vignettes of my hometown this way - Mount Wantastiquet - along with red brick buildings, overflowing flowerpots, and passersby on foot. However, a regular occurrence started to sour my view. At first they were few, then they...
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