BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Jeebus! And thank you, Wendy M. Levy [“A union-busting law firm separates Co-op from its expressed ideals,” Letters, Oct. 17], for your articulation of the problem.
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BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
The Brattleboro Selectboard made a pitch to lawmakers for a bigger slice of the economic pie March 26. The lawmakers under the Golden Dome listened politely. All five members of the Selectboard, interim Town Manager Patrick Moreland, and Town Manager Executive Secretary Jan Anderson had traveled to Montpelier to seek alternatives for raising revenues that could offset municipal property taxes. “We're unduly burdened because we're providing services to the region as a whole,” said Selectboard Chair David Gartenstein, who attested...
Magician Jonas Cain will present a “magical history tour” at the Hooker-Dunham Theater on Sunday, April 23, at 1 p.m., with his new interactive show “4,000 Years of Magic!” This production will feature famous magic stunts from throughout history. “I was inspired to write this show after hearing of the recent untimely passing of a prominent magician,” Cain said in a news release. “I regularly perform material that I learned from Daryl [Easton], and have never lived in a world...
I found Joyce Marcel's story on the Brattleboro Food Co-op killing [Special Focus, July 17] an amazingly thoughtful and thorough piece. Not very often do we read about such real-life, adult situations as what goes on at the workplace. I have never been through what Richard Gagnon endured at his job, and I cannot imagine being driven to the point of murder over anything. But work makes up more of our lives than we probably even realize and I, like...
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