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...
A Townshend farm is one of nine Vermont agricultural producers that will share in $854,542 in federal grant money. Big Picture Farm LC3, which makes handmade, all-natural caramels with farmstead goat milk from its own herd, was awarded $49,057 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development's Value-Added Producer Grant program. The grants were announced Feb. 3 in a joint press release by the Vermont congressional delegation. It was the second big award in less than a year for Big...
BRATTLEBORO-On Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19, the Brattleboro Union High School Players will present their production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, a script that playwright Edward Albee called "probably the finest American play ever written so far." First produced in 1938, the play has provided thought-provoking entertainment for audiences ever since. Wilder's dramatic innovations, considered radical at the time, included no props and a minimal set (some chairs, a couple of tables); and a non-linear plot. Its...
Eesha Williams' letter states that the Dummerston Selectboard “wants to end the right of townspeople to modify the budget at town meeting.” That is not the case. The confusion is attributable to an article that Selectboard member Hugh Worden wrote for the spring issue of the Views of Dummerston newsletter, and an editorial change that was made to the title: “Board Considers Whether Budget Should be Approved18 [sic] by Australian Ballot.” Mr. Worden expressed his concern that 10 percent of...
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