BRATTLEBORO — Thank you for documenting Bill Guay's effect on us.
A memorial is being planned for Mon., Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, 190 Main St., Brattleboro.
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
Prospects for a second Amtrak train calling in Brattleboro look slightly better than in past years in light of the upcoming state rail plan, published in draft form in June. The document lists, as a "recommended initiative," the northward extension of Amtrak's Valley Flyer train from its current northern terminus in Greenfield, Massachusetts, just south of the Vermont border, to either Brattleboro or White River Junction. The last state rail plan, which the Agency of Transportation (AOT) published in 2021,
The Great River Theater Festival returns to its roots in Saxtons River for its second season with shows, workshops, and several gatherings, including cookouts, over the next two weekends. Main Street Arts will offer performances of Peter Shaffer's Equus, a psychological thriller that is considered a modern classic. Shows are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July 5, 6, and 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the MSA theater, which has been reconfigured so the audience literally has a ringside seat. The show...
Sometime today, if everything goes A-OK, John Glenn will be orbiting the Earth in the space shuttle Discovery. Glenn, who in 1962 became the first American to orbit the earth, is our country's last great hero. The outpouring of affection and excitement for him after his first flight in space was as unexpected as it was authentic. The space program, when initiated, had many goals - the least of which was space exploration. It was, first, a very expensive Cold...
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