BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced...
BRATTLEBORO-Greg Lesch. the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, died Feb. 19,
Many people in Windham County look on in frustration as they watch the police arrest...
ROCKINGHAM-The town of Rockingham recently announced that the Proposed Amendments to the town's Zoning and...
The Windham Southeast School District Board has chosen attorney Aimee Goddard of Buehler & Annis, PLC to serve as independent investigator into sexual abuse charges dating back to the early 1970s, following evidence “to wherever the investigation takes it,” as School Board Chair David Schoales put it. The decision was made at the board's Dec. 21 meeting, held at the Dummerston School and livestreamed on Zoom. “We have identified an investigator and a law firm we would like to retain...
On Friday, April 14, at 5 p.m., the Brattleboro Literary Festival's Literary Cocktail Hour will present Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, author of Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe. Maraniss will be in conversation with Bob Parks, president of the board of the Brattleboro Literary Festival. Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an...
I am writing to call attention to an omission in Deborah Luskin's “Praise in 2010” column [The Commons, January]. Yes, you saw it coming, Deborah (“I hesitate to list our terrific cultural institutions for fear of leaving some out”), and here it is. Perhaps it can be argued that the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery is more a venue than an “institution.” Nevertheless, the theater provides a very important service to our community - a topnotch space for performances (theatrical or...
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