BRATTLEBORO — Mindy Haskins Rogers' piece is impeccable journalism, brilliantly written.
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...
Drug deals, panhandlers, burglaries, vandalism, and a carjacking at the Transportation Center brought residents to a recent Selectboard meeting, demanding action and answers. “The people in the community are asking for your help and it doesn't happen,” former board member and chair Dick DeGray told the board at its May 16 meeting, two days after the parking garage incident. The board in recent years has shown “so much inactivity” on the crime issue, DeGray said, adding that he'd come before...
When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of the first things they did was whitewash the powerful murals that had been painted on bomb-blasted walls in the capital city of Kabul. Soon after, the artists who had created those murals were targeted for arrest or worse. Those artists were members of a 50-person Afghan-led artist collective called ArtLords. Fearing for their lives under the Taliban, the ArtLords and thousands of other Afghans fled their country, became...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes as "souls on board." If, for example, a 747 was having landing gear problems as they approached the airport, you could be talking about at least 400 souls on board. Or upwards of 800 on an Airbus. Gaza's Rafah has 1.3 million souls on board, and they are squarely in Netanyahu's sights. These displaced Palestinians are the target of Israel's invasion of Rafah, aided by...
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