I love the sketch by Karen Becker of the chorus singing. How refreshing it is to have a drawing done on the site of local activities.
Would that The Commons have more illustrations like this one.
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Wendy Harrison is one of Windham County's two state senators. BRATTLEBORO-We're talking a lot about...
LEYDEN, MASS.-I was lucky to have been born in Boston in 1947 and never served...
WARDSBORO-I agree, we do need facts. Have you heard of CWD (chronic wasting disease)? It's...
The writer is president of Vermont Friends of Israel. ATHENS-In response to Bert Picard's criticisms...
On the first day of Everyone Eats!, the community food program handed out 500 to-go meals - hardly a surprise. That volunteers did so in all of 39 minutes? That was the surprise, said local organizer Stephanie Bonin, who also serves as executive director of the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance. “We weren't expecting that at all.” On day two, the participating restaurants also made 500 meals, but Bonin said Tropical Storm Isaias cancelled the in-person distribution. “I like to be tested,
How the proposed Route 119 bridge to Hinsdale will impact traffic flows in downtown Brattleboro was a question asked, but not answered, at the public informational meeting in the Brattleboro Municipal Center on Sept. 14. New Hampshire Department of Transportation engineers delivered an excellent presentation and answered other questions. Representatives of the Vermont Agency of Transportation, Windham Regional Commission, and the town of Brattleboro were present but did not participate in the presentation and discussion. Nevertheless, they are responsible to...
The Leland & Gray Players close their 19th season on May 28-30 with the zany farce and slapstick of Commedia dell'arte in Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters. In a madcap Italian comedy of love, disguise, duplicity, and dueling - adapted for today by Jeffrey Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi - betrothed couple Silvio and Clarice are devastated when a previous fiancé reappears, back from the dead. In this farce, people, places, and things are not what they seem...
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