Michael Gigante, Ph.D. notes: "This is a piece I wrote after the first Trump election...
ATHENS-A group of morally confused Brattleboro citizens have petitioned onto the March 4 Town Meeting...
DUMMERSTON-Dear Gov. Scott, You enjoy a broad, bipartisan base of support here in Vermont, elected...
The Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting Human Services Committee submitted recommended funding for human services nonprofits...
Town highway departments were busy Tuesday repairing washouts after a line of severe thunderstorms sent rivers, brooks, and streams over their banks across Windham County on Monday afternoon. As much as 4 inches of rain fell over the region between midmorning and late afternoon on Monday, according to the National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y. As a result, widespread flash flooding was reported throughout the county. Flooding and a mudslide closed Route 30 near the Brattleboro-Dummerston town line for a...
This is an open letter to Evan Twarog, who is 14 years old and lives in Keene, and whose dad works at Vermont Yankee. Evan wrote a letter to The Commons [“What is my family going to do if VY shuts down?” Nov. 16] in which he said that his dad isn't “the monster that the media and anti-VY groups make him and other VY employees out to be.” Evan said that if VY closes, their life will change, and...
Friends of Music at Guilford's Midwinter Musicale is on Saturday, Feb. 23, at 3 p.m., in the sanctuary of Guilford Community Church. This year's “Stolen Jewels” program features flutist Alison Hale and pianist Christopher Lewis performing four romantic chamber music favorites originally scored for other instruments with piano: Brahms' Sonata in F minor for clarinet, Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata for cello, Schumann's three Romances for oboe, and Fauré's Sonata in A Major for violin. These transcriptions for flute were written by...
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