Membership fees for Brattleboro Time Trade are $60 per year. The wrong amount was reported in the May 14 edition of The Commons.
BRATTLEBORO-Albert Mikuski, now 88 years old, recalls an extraordinary story of how he and his...
-The state's housing crisis will be a top priority in the upcoming legislative session, and...
BRATTLEBORO-At a standing-room-only meeting at Academy School on Dec. 12, Representative Town Meeting (RTM) members...
PUTNEY-Ars longa, vita brevis. One translation of the Latin phrase is that craft takes a...
Some students complain about too much homework. Brattleboro Union High School junior Lucia Morey, in contrast, arrived before the start of classes on Feb. 17 to take on another assignment: leading a protest against new U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. “As passionate and united members of the school community,” Morey told a crowd of more than 100 students and staffers, “we are coming together and saying that we will not accept the decisions being made by our secretary of education,
In Economics 101, we learned something about supply and demand. When shortages exist for goods and services, or for specialized personnel - such as receptionists and doctors - waiting lines and times lengthen. Prices might rise for scarce resources. In health care, patients with long waits might suffer. In federal programs, especially the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), veterans groups will protest (appropriately), while opposing political groups attack with denouncements of government medicine. Investigations follow, with new legislation, executive orders,
Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and is excitedly putting out a call for help to meet a required $50,000 in matching funds. According to Sara Coffey, VPL's founder and director, VPL is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant this year. She told The Commons the award will support six artist residencies for the organization's 2015 season. VPL describes itself as...
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