Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
Célina Houlné, former library director of the Rockingham Free Public Library, said she could not have been happier at getting the chance to respond to the allegations from the library's Board of Trustees - a hearing that would have been held behind closed doors if not for her insistence to do otherwise. “I'm happy that I'm finally getting a chance to talk about all the issues,” she told The Commons. “This is the very first time I've had a chance...
Tim Wessel believes he's cleverly posed a gotcha-question when he asks, "Can it be 'genocide' when the population of Gaza has essentially tripled in the last 25 years?" Yes. Yes, it can. Would Wessel argue that the Holocaust wasn't a genocide if it was found that the Jewish population in Germany increased prior to the Holocaust? Of course he wouldn't. Population growth has nothing to do with the crimes against humanity inflicted on a people. The U.N. Convention on the...
Next Stage Arts Project presents Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 7:30 p.m., returning to Putney after rocking the house for sold-out crowds at their two previous appearances. Formed in 1999, Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens' music is hardcore soul and R&B, with deep roots in gospel. Shelton's husky, expressive voice contains shades of both James Brown and Sam Cooke and, in fact, her bass player is often Fred Thomas, who spent more than...
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