BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, has purchased The Deerfield Valley News, a...
BRATTLEBORO-Much of Windham County depends for its health care services on Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH),
BRATTLEBORO-With this month's effective end to the state's motel voucher program on July 1, a...
BRATTLEBORO-The annual Brattleboro Goes Fourth! parade on July 4 featured plenty of vehicles from all...
Vermont Yankee and other nuclear plants no longer just spin turbines and produce electricity. Nuclear plants, and the states that host them, must also acknowledge these sites as the nuclear waste storage facilities they are, said nuclear waste expert Robert Alvarez. The industry has consistently “put the disposal cart before the storage horse,” Alvarez said April 18, sitting in the lobby of the Latchis Hotel, fresh from testifying before the Vermont House and Senate Natural Resources and Energy committees in...
Vermont Performance Lab, in association with Marlboro College, is bringing Seattle-based choreographer Alice Gosti to Southern Vermont as part of a series that features artists who are making a social impact through their work. Over a 10-day artist residency in the Drury Gallery on the Marlboro College campus, Gosti will work on a new performance installation that grapples with and engages the community with issues surrounding immigration and homelessness in America. As part of the residency, the Performance Lab is...
Community theater is a unique experience. For about six weeks, a dozen or more adults who have full-time jobs and families make putting on a show one of their primary goals. They skip dinners, they brave all sorts of terrible weather conditions, they sacrifice their precious time and even some of their own financial resources just so that they can create theatrical entertainment for the enjoyment of others, many of whom are complete strangers. Why would they do this? Are...
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