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.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
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Renovations at the Bellows Falls Middle School are nearly complete, but the project will take at least through January to finish, according to Windham Northeast Supervisory Union Superintendent Chris Kibbe. The first day of school on Sept. 17 found the students “excited” and “happy,” according to the teachers interviewed. Last-minute project delays postponed the first day of school at BFMS from Aug. 28 to this week. “I've never seen so many kids happy to be back at school,” Afterschool Programs...
The word came a year ago this Labor Day weekend: My mother, suddenly hospitalized, was about to die. I should have been shocked, as just two weeks earlier a doctor's visit for back pain revealed a diagnosis of sepsis and discovery of a lump believed to be lymphoma. But my life, a relatively smooth ride from childhood to college to career, had turned into one jolt after another, taking my longtime job, relationship, father, and, on Sept. 2, 2019, last...
Theatre Adventure, Inc. is a nonprofit organization providing year-round performing arts programming for people with disabilities. Working with student’s individual abilities, they create productions using multiple artistic media in which the unique abilities of each student can flourish. Theatre Adventure recently received a $15,000 Creative Futures Grant from the Vermont Arts Council to create innovative performances throughout the pandemic. “In response to creating and developing our hybrid program, the students have risen to new levels of independence and leadership, as...
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