AmÉe LaTour is a writer for nonprofits and lover of words and human beings. Recovery...
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
TOWNSHEND-Before the Feb. 25 girls' basketball game between Leland & Gray and Bellows Falls, a special ceremony honored members of the undefeated Leland & Gray girls' basketball teams from 1952 and 1955. Leland & Gray Athletic Director Tammy Claussen called forward to center court the four former players - Mary Cutts Mewes and Mary Robinson Laitres, who were both members of the 1952 team, and Marty Gould Morrison and Marilyn Bills Chapin, who were on the 1955 team - where...
Students from 31 Vermont high schools representing 11 counties will travel to the Barre Opera House on March 7 to recite poems on stage in the Vermont Poetry Out Loud 2019 Semifinals. Two of those students are Yiwen “Eva” Wu from Vermont Academy and Ada Melton-Houghton from Brattleboro Union High School. They will vie for the state championship in this prestigious poetry recitation competition, which is administered by the Vermont Arts Council under the auspices of the National Endowment for...
In the middle of my village's quarter-mile-long Main Street stands an imitation Catholic church - imitation, in my eyes, because its street-facing colored windows are plastic, and, to me, a secular Jew with a passion for architecture, the word “Catholic” has always meant buildings of impressive stability reaching upward toward a heaven whose light shines through their tributary windows. Narrow-minded and irreverent, perhaps, but I have known many Catholics in the course of my 75 years, and most of them...
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