MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
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In response to a 3-percent decrease in membership in 2011, the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce is expanding its efforts in reaching out to its community. Chamber Executive Director Jerry Goldberg called the decline “part of a growing trend among Chambers around the country. We were lucky to have avoided this until now.” At the moment, the Chamber has about 550 members. Although this decline was the first in six years, Goldberg said that the Chamber realizes the need to...
Vermont Performance Lab hosts its third annual Open Lab event on Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and 16, in Brattleboro to coincide with the Southern Vermont Dance Festival. The Open Lab weekend features emerging local and international dance artists from Vermont, Maine, Western Massachusetts, Lithuania, England, and Quebec. VPL has expanded the Open Lab to two festive afternoons that will include free and informal performances and opportunities to meet and talk with the artists and socialize with neighbors and dance...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Emilie Kornheiser has done, and is doing, a wonderful job at representing us in West Brattleboro (District 7). Thanks (again), Emilie! Brian Shafford West Brattleboro This letter to the editor was submitted to The Commons. This piece, published in print in the Voices section or as a column in the news sections, represents the opinion of the writer. In the newspaper and on this website, we strive to ensure that opinions are based on fair expression of established fact.
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