BRATTLEBORO — Compassionate Brattleboro endorses, in the interest of compassion, Brattleboro Common Sense's efforts to articulate the Brattleboro area community's longing for, and commitment to, a world that is healthy, fair, and caring for all.
Addie Lentzner was a Vermont delegate at the Democratic National Convention in August. Among many...
WESTMINSTER WEST-I have known Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun for over 20 years as a teacher and...
Karen Walter originally wrote this piece as a letter for her family, and some encouraged...
BRATTLEBORO-Constitution Week, Sept. 17 to 23, commemorates the signing of the Constitution of the United...
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons invites the community to a panel discussion about Vermont's homelessness crisis and how it affects us all. Systemic problems (like lack of affordable housing, low wages, and cost of labor) and personal circumstances (like life-altering events) can cause anyone to become homeless. The discussion will center around a better understanding of what it means to be unhoused and how as a community we can come together to make change. The event, part of the newspaper's Voices Live! forum...
Chloe Learey, a speaker on the panel at the Voices Live forum, is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro. She serves as the steering committee chair of the Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance, as well as on the boards of the Vermont Community Loan Fund and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. BRATTLEBORO-The recent "Voices Live: A Conversation on Homelessness" at the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro could have taken place in any town in...
“I write songs, and I play guitar while singing those songs,” says Gibson Chase-Pinkney, who prefers to go by his first name only. However, Gibson's music is more complicated than that. Think Jonathon Coulton plus Tom Lehrer times two minus satire; hyper-strummed, yet somehow deeply rooted in throwback coffeehouse folk. Often earnestly dark, but always with an impish grin - geeky, enthusiastic, energetic. There's not an easy way to describe Gibson's music, but he's smart, a load of fun, and...
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