Thanks so much for publishing such an excellent piece on Dave Shapiro's sad and untimely passing [“How could this happen?”, The Commons, May 4].
I really appreciated that you took the time to look at this in depth.
Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
After an extensive search and interview process, current Assistant Principal Dana Aquadro has been named the new principal of Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School. He will start in that role on July 1. A Vermont native who has lived here throughout his life but for one year post-college in Portland, Maine, Aquadro earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in education from Keene State College and his administrator's certificate from the Upper Valley Educators Institute. He says when...
On Aug. 27, 25 of my neighbors and I were evacuated from our homes because of Irene's imminent flood worries. Brattleboro was hit surprisingly hard and in some unexpected ways. I live in Melrose Terrace, a subsidized housing development for the elderly and disabled. I had waited two years for an apartment there and had moved out of the Brooks House two weeks before it burned down. Melrose Terrace is my home. I can wheel outside, I have a ramp,
Bartleby's Books will host a book signing with Chris Diamond, author of “Ski Inc.,” and former president of Mount Snow on Monday, Dec. 12, at 4 p.m. “You can't make this stuff up” was a refrain Diamond heard regularly during his 44-year career in the ski-resort industry, when he guided major ski resorts from Vermont to Colorado and was intimately involved in the issues shaping the sport, according to a news release. The author, who holds English degrees from Middlebury...
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