BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Our nuclear spring” [Editorial, March 14].
Once again, The Commons hits the nail on the head! What a great bunch of news people you are.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Gov. Phil Scott vetoed a charter change on Feb. 28 that would have granted 16- and 17-year-olds in Brattleboro the right to vote and run for office in municipal elections. On Tuesday, Rep. Emilie Kornheiser, who cosponsored the bill with the town's two other representatives, Mollie Burke and Tristan Toleno, said that the delegation hopes to begin the process of attempting to override the governor's veto. This is the Republican governor's third veto of the legislative session. In a letter...
Confluence, a gallery in Readsboro, Vermont, opens its third show of the season with an invitational exhibit that will feature some of the finest studio glass artists in the region. It runs from Aug. 5 to Sept. 10. Beyond Readsboro - Contemporary Studio Glass is curated by Bill LeQuier and Mary Angus, a couple who are themselves glass artists: a sculptor and glass blower, respectively. Beyond Readsboro features nine glass artists from southeast Vermont and northwestern Massachusetts: Lucy Bergamini, Ed...
On Tuesday, March 4, voters in Rockingham will elect four candidates running for the Rockingham Free Public Library Board of Trustees. I am an incumbent trustee. The other three candidates (Doreen Aldrich, David Gould, and Carol Blackwood) and I are running as a unified slate and would appreciate your votes. Over the last couple of years, the present leadership of the library has lost the public's trust due to repeated violations of Vermont's open-meeting law and personal agendas that in...
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