BRATTLEBORO — Mindy Haskins Rogers' piece is impeccable journalism, brilliantly written.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Last week, the statewide Everyone Eats! program celebrated an important milestone by serving its one millionth meal. The program, which has provided meals prepared by local restaurants to Vermonters experiencing any of the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, started in Brattleboro last summer. It soon grew into a statewide initiative, thanks to an allocation of $5 million of the state's Coronavirus Relief Fund by the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development to Southeastern Vermont Community Action (SEVCA), which...
Adults and children alike will have the opportunity to be transported to Neverland through a multimedia presentation of the silent film Peter Pan (1924), featuring a live score by Washington-based harpist Leslie McMichael and theatrical special effects by the Western Massachusetts troupe The Lovelights. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26 in the sanctuary of Epsilon Spires at 190 Main St. Scottish writer J.M. Barrie created the character of Peter Pan in 1902, and since...
BRATTLEBORO-Recently, The New York Times reported the Trump regime plans to cut legal-aid funds for migrant children. Under this policy, 25,000 unaccompanied children will lose their legal representation that is provided by volunteer U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy groups. These children, as young as 2 years old, have escaped trafficking, trauma, and abuse and could be forcibly repatriated to further harm. This appears to be an open violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. In 1864, the U.S. Cavalry, led by...
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