PUTNEY — RE: “Brattleboro task force asks: What can we do about parking?” [The Commons, May 2].
Parking spaces are real estate - real estate that is not earning its full value.
Parking rates should be higher than they are.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
Verne Bristol, one of the founders of Rescue Inc., died in his sleep on Aug. 23, six days after he celebrated his 91st birthday. "Of course, we're very sad to see him leave us," says Patty Bristol Higgins, one of Bristol's two daughters. "He always said he wanted to go quickly and didn't want any of us kids hanging around a hospital bed. I'm so glad that he went peacefully in his sleep." Bristol, one of 17 children, grew up...
Cotton Mill Arts invites Windham County artists and artisans to apply for the Cotton Mill Open Studio & Holiday Sale, Dec. 7-9. Final registration for this year's event is Aug. 15. Photos and descriptions of products intended for sale at the event must be submitted along with an artist statement. Cotton Mill Open Studio & Holiday Sale is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year highlighting local artists, artisans, and entrepreneurs in the creative economy. At first, the event featured the...
VERNON-I support Ian Hefele for Vernon town clerk in this year's election. I've known Ian for 15 years, and I can still be moved by the depths of his patience, understanding, compassion, and devotion to helping those around him. He is kind, intelligent, well-informed, hardworking, and generous with his time and his efforts. He is also my brother-in-law. But, even if I had just met him, as a stranger, at, say, a Vernon Elementary School function, Uncle Jesse's Café (one...
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