BROOKLINE — Thank you, Deb Luskin. It took guts to write this. And thank you to The Commons for publishing.
I am hopeful for change. I pray we can all be kinder to each other in the midst of these revelations.
Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
Regional and state leaders are voicing concern about Brattleboro's surprise last-minute severing of ties with Windham County's largest emergency medical services provider, Rescue Inc. [“Brattleboro breaks ties with Rescue,” News, April 20]. “I think it's a given that there will be some bumps in the road,” Putney Fire Chief Tom Goddard, newly elected chair of the state's southeastern EMS district board, told his peers at a meeting after the action. “This is a pretty significant, huge change.” The Brattleboro Selectboard...
The Tenores de Aterúe is a quartet of four American singers, each with a background in folk polyphony and early music, who perform from the island of Sardinia in Italy “cantu a tenore,” a form of polyphonic singing. On Jan. 19, Tenores de Aterúe will appear for the first time in Brattleboro, when the group performs a concert of cantu a tenòre at 118 Elliot at 7 p.m. “Sardinian cantu a tenòre is a unique style of music which uses...
GUILFORD-I have known Zon Eastes for almost 40 years: as a neighbor, as my daughter's cello teacher at the Brattleboro Music Center, as a positive influence on young people in our community through his work with local and state music and arts organizations, and as a person committed to community service and improving the lives of the people in our community. Zon has successfully served on the Guilford Selectboard since 2019. He has demonstrated his competence and commitment as he...
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