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No paper July 1

Tuesday, June 23, 2026 — Issue 871

BRATTLEBORO-A reminder to readers that, as has been the case since 2023, The Commons will not publish an issue on Wednesday, July 1.

Any urgent news and updates will be published on the newspaper’s website.

The newspaper will resume regular publication on Wednesday, July 8, with the deadline for submissions of news and advertising on Friday, July 3.

The Commons’ sister newspaper, The Deerfield Valley News,based in Wilmington, will publish its usual edition on Thursday, July 2.

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Vernon, state grapple with potential VY site redevelopment

By
Greta Solssa

VERNON-After 40 years in operation, the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station in Vernon shuttered in...

Serious play

By
Joyce Marcel

BRATTLEBORO-A clown is someone who pretends they have just been born, says Brattleboro’s Peter Gould.

Correction

Owing to a production error, each of two political news releases ran in last week’s...

Celebrating independence, striving for unity

This year, we celebrate the United States’ 250th birthday — its semiquincentennial. On July 4,

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Mount Snow defers child-care program changes

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Mike Eldred
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 — Issue 839

WEST DOVER-Mount Snow officials have reversed their recent decision to reduce their child care program starting in November ["Mount Snow Child Care will shift to 'employee-first' enrollment model,'" News, Oct. 15]. Instead, the reduction in the child care program won't go into effect until June 19, 2026. The initial proposal was intended to limit the child care program to the children of Mount Snow employees, though community members could be wait-listed for open slots. It would have left 16 families...

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Scoring his dreams

By
Wendy M. Levy
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 — Issue 823

GUILFORD-Upon listening to Roger Clark Miller's new album, Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble one could be forgiven for forgetting the "solo" in the title. Surely, you might think, this music is coming from a group of musicians. A guitar orchestra, carrying forth the tradition of avant-garde composer Glenn Branca's works? A contemporary continuation of Rhys Chatham's 1977 piece "Guitar Trio"? Surprise! No. All of these layered, multihued sounds are coming from one person: Roger Clark Miller. Lest you think...

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Voices

Building a better government from the ruins of the old one

By
Meg Mott
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 — Issue 856

Meg Mott is a professor emerita and former town moderator. She will be speaking on the Pursuit of Happiness at 6:30 on Thursday, March 19 at the Putney Public Library. Information: putneylibrary.org/events/. PUTNEY-When Americans consider the famous sentence of the Declaration of Independence we rarely get past first base. “We hold these truths” guides us through equality and unalienable rights, and then we land on “the pursuit of Happiness” as if we’d scored the necessary points. But the sentence keeps...

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