BRATTLEBORO-Last week, the Vermont Legislature adjourned after passing a controversial education reform bill that many...
WINDHAM-Approximately 40 people gathered at the Windham Meeting House on June 17 for "What's Possible,
BRATTLEBORO-Three school districts will begin their summer meals programs, distributing free, weekly meal kits to...
WESTMINSTER-After completing its 25th school year of operation, The Compass School recently and abruptly announced...
BRATTLEBORO-Norma Hardy looks at the town as "a very, very busy hive," with the police chief noting that the Brattleboro Police Department (BPD) responded to 11,277 calls for services in 2023. That's up almost 8% since last year, according to the BPD's 2023 Annual Report. But embedded in the numbers are difficult stories of a community, and Hardy took The Commons through the numbers in a recent interview, offering some context about a still-understaffed police force adapting to providing public...
A Tale of The Tontlawald, an evening of entertainment featuring music by The Bluebird Orchestra, film shorts, and a marionette show, will be presented at the Cotton Mill in Room 357. The first half of the evening will feature The Bluebird Orchestra playing some of their original songs and improvising music to two very short silent films: “Princess Nicotine” and “Artistic Creation” from the turn of the (last) century. After a brief intermission, The Bluebird Theater will present “A Tale...
While the majority of Americans - over 90 percent, including most gun owners - want actual gun control so we don't have what now is called a “mass casualty event,” we are frozen in place by the gun lobby, and, it must be said, by most Republicans. Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, is going to talk about how sad he is about the massacre that took place on Tuesday in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where, at this point,
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