PUTNEY-It was certainly not their first career when Kate and Charles Dodge founded the Putney...
BRATTLEBORO-Less than two months before the close of its fiscal year, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is...
ROCKINGHAM-The town Selectboard and the village trustees of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River have decided...
PUTNEY-In May, two friends, both residents of Putney Meadows senior housing, were walking on the...
Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, will host a panel discussion with Vermont publishers/editors about the future of local journalism on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. VIM's panelists will discuss the turmoil in local journalism today and how publishers and editors are dedicated to keeping newspapers alive. Panelists include: Art Cullen, Pulitzer Prize–winning editor of the Storm Lake Times; Tim Calabro, editor/publisher, The White River Valley Herald; Angelo Lynn, publisher/editor, Addison Independent; Randolph Holhut, news...
After nearly 30 years at the helm of the Brattleboro Music Center's Brattleboro Concert Choir, choral director Susan Dedell has announced that the 2017-18 season will be her last as its music director. Dedell has been artistic director of the Brattleboro Concert Choir since 1990. The Choir, the premier program of the Brattleboro Music Center created by Blanche Moyse in 1950 as the Community Chorus, has employed only three artistic directors during its lifetime: Moyse, Catherine Stockman, and Dedell. Although...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as a "Constitution Wrangler." PUTNEY-Due process, like free speech, is a bedrock principle of constitutional democracy. The Fifth Amendment states that "no person" shall be "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The due process clause prevents public officials from detaining anyone without a formal charge or finding someone guilty without giving them a chance to present their defense. The federal courts...
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