Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
Details about the event appear in a news story this issue. BRATTLEBORO-On June 14, Flag...
BENNINGTON, VERMONT / ZIKHRON YAAKOV, ISRAEL-The Shalom Alliance is working to advance the cause of...
BRATTLEBORO-The Commons has recently published a number of commentaries and letters to the editor regarding...
The Aug. 14 meeting in Putney came after news hit the Facebook-sphere that multiple downtown businesses had decided to close or relocate, including Ruggles & Hunt, Candle in the Night, Windham Movement Apparel, Walking with Wolves, Traveling Treasures, ArtRAGEus1, and Twin Flames Taqueria. Speculation around the closings has ranged from the downtown rents being too high, to shop owners catering to tourists and discounting the needs of local consumers, to people not having enough disposable income. In reality, the stores...
Main Street Arts (MSA) announced it will be hosting an exhibition of the watercolors of Saxtons River's John S. “Jack” Peters, in a one-man show titled “Crossings.” The show will be on display through March 28 at MSA's gallery at 35 Main Street in Saxtons River. There will be a free public reception at the gallery on March 17, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and all are welcome. According to MSA's Margo Ghia, “Jack and Susie Peters have been essential...
Interesting that the option of Brattleboro reducing spending never comes into the conversation. And that the real estate and sales taxes just keep on increasing - 7 percent until we burn through that additional revenue and then 8, 9, and 10 percent in future years. At some point, shoppers will begin to notice. Some will take the cue at 7 percent. And some shop owners of my acquaintance are considering letting their leases expire as the town makes it harder...
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