Tristan Roberts ([email protected]) is a former state representative, a small-scale farmer, and a writer who...
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
Cindy Jerome is one of three candidates running for a seat in the Vermont Legislature in the Windham-4 district towns of Dummerston, Putney, and Westminster. Jerome, 58, lives in West Dummerston and has been a resident since the mid-1980s. She has been Town Moderator for the last eight years and she has served on the Dummerston Selectboard, including two years as Chair. For 19 years, she has been the executive director of Holton Home, a residential-care home for elders in...
On Friday, Jan. 10, the Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Music Series presents acclaimed American pianist Jonathan Biss. Lauded by BBC Music Magazine as “one of the most thoughtful and technically accomplished pianists of the younger generation,” Biss has embarked on an ambitious project to record the complete cycle of Beethoven's 32 sonatas. “His journey will be well worth following,” said a New York Times reviewer in 2012, and Brattleboro's audience will get the chance to do so live when the...
Students in Maresa Nielson's fourth-grade class at Vernon Elementary School recently worked on an assignment that's close to our hearts here at The Commons: writing letters to the editor. The fourth graders wrote individual letters on the topic of water, its ownership, and its use, buttressing their arguments with facts gleaned from a variety of news sources, ranging from Vermont Public Radio to Al Jazeera on topics from Flint, Michigan's corroded water pipes to the Dakota Access Pipeline to industrial...
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