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No paper next week

Wednesday, December 25, 2013 — Issue 234

BRATTLEBORO — The Commons will suspend publication for a week so our staff and contributors can recharge their batteries, enjoy the holiday season, and otherwise gird themselves to produce a good newspaper for you in 2014.

The next issue will be dated Wednesday, Jan. 1 and distributed one day early, Dec. 31.

Deadline for news and advertising is Friday, Dec. 27.

All of us at Vermont Independent Media and The Commons offer readers best holiday wishes in these waning days of 2013. See you next year.

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It’s almost ready

By
Randolph T. Holhut

BRATTLEBORO-An achievement that has been decades in the making is about to finally happen with...

A day without internet

By
Devan Monette

BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...

Foes of Putney housing project get fourth defeat

By
Virginia Ray

PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...

Petition brings new public conduct code to Town Meeting

By
Kevin O'Connor

BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...

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It sounds like a proverbial grade-school math problem: How do you accommodate 250 people with only 234 beds? It’s a real-life predicament for human service workers here who report options at the local homeless shelter and state-subsidized motel-room program have reached historic highs — yet still aren’t enough. “Even as the number of shelter beds and motel rooms has increased, the need for these opportunities has grown at a faster rate,” said Jon Hoover, operations director at the Groundworks Collaborative,

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‘An unparalleled legacy of service and caring’

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The unexpected death on Sept. 27 of Attorney Ray Massucco has left a huge hole in the heart of the community, and created quite a stir in social media as Ray is remembered by friends, colleagues and clients. Many, many of us have been all three. The Massucco family has had a strong influence on the Rockingham region for generations, going back to the 1700s. His ancestors ran local shops and stores. His father, Dr. Lawrence Massucco, was the town’s...

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