PUTNEY — I absolutely loved Robin MacArthur's story about mud season, cheerfully slowing down, Tropical Storm Irene, three generations, and their love of life here in New England [“Without wheels,” Voices, March 21].
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...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
Members of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce received a side of finance with their scrambled eggs at the chamber's monthly breakfast series. Town Finance Director John O'Connor gave an overview of the proposed $16.3 million fiscal year 2015 budget and the proposed 8.5-cent increase to the property tax increase. Interim Town Manager Patrick Moreland followed O'Connor's presentation with an outline of the services and infrastructure the town budget supports. “If we want to preserve the life that we have...
As a reader, librarian, and writer, I appreciate The Commons every week, but the Dec. 14 issue in particular I found to be extremely well done. In the Voices section, I was so struck by the first two sentences in this Viewpoint about the Vermont builder's group supporting the water protectors at Standing Rock in Cannon Ball, N.D. by Anna Mullen and Alana Fichman that I telephoned an English teacher friend to read them aloud. “We were two of many...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of acoustic/electric indie-instrumental and folk-pop music by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based guitar duo Threefifty, plus Vermont-based singer/songwriters Paul Siegel and Lizzy Mandell at Next Stage on Saturday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. Formed at the Yale School of Music, and molded by the multi-faceted music scene of New York City, Threefifty incorporates elements of post-rock, folk, minimalism and Baroque classicism. Guitarists Brett Parnell and Geremy Schulick compose predominantly instrumental songs, which range...
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