Voices
Focus on Act 46
On towns’ options for school choice and the pressure for change
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
A team of professional engineers from Stevens & Associates, P.C., recently volunteered at St. Michael's School, working with eighth- and ninth-graders to provide a project-based educational program. The aim was to foster creativity and innovation for an anticipated “green space” project, which will be located behind the school. Serenity Wolf, civil engineer at S&A, explained in a news release that her firm focuses on building community through engineering projects and personal and company service. “I love that I can share...
Students in Maresa Nielson's fourth-grade class at Vernon Elementary School recently worked on an assignment that's close to our hearts here at The Commons: writing letters to the editor. The fourth graders wrote individual letters on the topic of water, its ownership, and its use, buttressing their arguments with facts gleaned from a variety of news sources, ranging from Vermont Public Radio to Al Jazeera on topics from Flint, Michigan's corroded water pipes to the Dakota Access Pipeline to industrial...
Write Action announces Poems in the Time of Covid, a collection of poems by 37 poets from the area and beyond. A launch party will take place at the River Garden Marketplace, a new venue opened this month by the Whetstone Station restaurant and brewery, at 157 Main St. on Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. The anthology grew out of Poems Around Town (PAT), a project of Write Action, with support from Time to Write and the...
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