BRATTLEBORO — Don't believe that Senator Jeanette White didn't understand that the Senate's marijuana legalization bill got transformed into a sellout to corporate interests.
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GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
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WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
DUMMERSTON-The controversy over political banners hung inside library windows of the Dummerston School has prompted multi-meeting discussions by the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Board, but any next step is currently on pause. Board member Eva Nolan said she noticed the banners, one each for presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, on Sept. 5 as she drove by the school. She then called WSESD Board Chair Deborah Stanford about her "concern for BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, and people of color]
After attending a meeting that The Commons reporter, Robert F. Smith, was covering, I want to state that I wholeheartedly support the Vermont Abenaki tribes. The controversy from the Québec tribes reads as a disrespectful attack on our state-recognized tribes and individuals within them. If there is ever any effort to rescind that state recognition and disenfranchise Vermont Abenaki of their heritage, I would stand with them and hope that fellow Vermonters would do so as well. Emily McAdoo Putney...
Ever since Windham Art Gallery closed shortly after she moved to Vermont almost two decades ago, painter Kay Curtis had been regretting that there was no longer a cooperative for art in Brattleboro. Of course, she knew that to start one up would be a huge job. “So I waited for 20 years,” she confessed. Then, suddenly, in September, Curtis got tired of waiting and declared, with the fervor of one on a mission, “I'm just going to do this...
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