Voices
Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
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...
BRATTLEBORO-When Vermont Democrats lacked a gubernatorial candidate the afternoon of the primary deadline in August 1972, Rockingham lawyer Tom Salmon, in the most last-minute of Hail Mary passes, threw his hat in the ring. "There could be a whale of a big surprise," Salmon was quoted as saying by skeptical reporters who knew the former local legislator had been soundly beached in his first try for state office two years earlier. Then a Moby Dick of a shock came on...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present a Celtic Music Festival featuring bands Cantrip, House of Hamill, and Hildaland, as part of the "Bandwagon Summer Series," on Sunday, August 13, at 4 p.m. at Scott Farm, 707 Kipling Rd. The triple bill features multi-instrumentalists and singers from both sides of the Atlantic who build upon traditional Celtic music with original songs and tunes, innovative arrangements, and three-part harmonies. Twilight Music and Next Stage Production Director Barry Stockwell said in...
Almost 150 folks, most of them members of the Brattleboro Food Co-op, sat together to celebrate the 45th annual meeting of the Co-op. As we ate delicious food prepared by Co-op staff, we listened to reports from the board and the general manager. Soon after, the moderator opened up the floor for comments. We heard first from a long-time Co-op member, a woman of color, who stood up and told of an extremely painful racially-based experience she had at the...
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