DUMMERSTON — I doubt that Senator Patrick Leahy will run for another term. It's one reason he can cut his losses and do as he pleases, which may get him some honorary post in a Hillary Clinton presidency.
How can that balance out: years of service, tarnished by a betrayal of his constituency at the very end?
He should know better that his legacy will be stained.
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...
BRATTLEBORO-Kimberly Frost, the town's finance director since 2022, will be stepping down on Jan. 3. The announcement was made on brattleboro.gov on Dec. 10. According to a news release, Frost is leaving "to pursue a different opportunity." "Starting this next chapter was a difficult decision, but I'm grateful to have served my community," said Frost. According to the news release, Frost "was instrumental in reuniting the Finance Department with the Treasurer's Office and thereby finding efficiencies to reduce town staff...
I am dismayed that The Commons chose to commission the biased, inaccurate reporting in Joyce Marcel's front-page article about Rep. Becca Balint's recent trip to Israel. A three-page, 2,500-plus-word article quoting at length from a single source is not a news story. Balint has a proven history in Brattleboro publications of communicating to the public coherently in her own words, and I would have preferred that she had been allowed to do so, however much I may disagree with her...
Leonard Ragouzeos's art rivets attention to detail, exposing the essence of his subjects from a graceful kohlrabi plant - "that I grew," he says - to an intricately stitched baseball to a dark-eyed, bearded fellow. The artist's black ink drawings, on display through Friday, Aug. 31, in the Crowell Gallery at Moore Free Library, employ a technique he's been honing for a few decades. Using brushes, pens, rollers, and other tools, he applies India ink to Yupo paper - an...
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