WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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...
To commemorate the sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War and Vermont's considerable contribution to the victory of the Union forces over their Confederate foes, American Legion Post 5 wanted to do something special. That something special: a two-day event on Sunday, May 24 and Monday, May 25, with lectures, a banquet, and a Memorial Day service at the town's Civil War monument on the Common. On Sunday, starting at 1 p.m., speakers will offer a variety of presentations...
On Oct. 15, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Oct. 16, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Rockingham Hill Farm, 34 Meetinghouse Road, the Great Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce will host its third annual Southern Vermont Flannel Festival. “Surround yourself with pies, cider, craft beer, pies, cocktails, pumpkins, food and craft vendors, and more pies, even a pie contest, and beautiful Vermont foliage as we celebrate community and welcome autumn surrounded by the vistas of the Vermont...
Friday, April 5 We gathered on the Middlebury Green, in Vermont, in the Abenaki land of Ndakinna. Each of us arrived in the middle of our own personal story, a piece of the greater story of humans in relation to the Earth. As we gathered, our stories began to intertwine. In the opening ceremony, we honored our power to shape the story that is still unfolding. Bill McKibben spoke the last few words. “We're all going to have to go...
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