YOUR AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT SOURCE OF NEWS AND VIEWS
✕
YOUR AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT SOURCE OF NEWS AND VIEWS
✕
Voices

Thanks from family of Joyce Scott

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 — Issue 387

We, the family of Joyce Scott, extend our sincere appreciation to our friends, family, and co-workers for their expressions of sympathy.

We are forever grateful for the many cards, notes of remembrance, food and donations to her charities: Rescue Inc., Putney Cares, and Kurn Hattin Homes.

We also thank Grace Cottage Hospital, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, Dr. Elizabeth McLarney, Vernon Hall, and Rescue Inc. for the wonderful care she received.

Thanks also to Mike Atamaniuk and staff, Father Fred McLaughlin for the beautiful Mass, Dummerston Center Grange, and the many others who assisted with services.

Voices

The power of protest

By
Mary McCallum

Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...

We have a well-founded fear based on firsthand experience

By
Timothy Belknap

Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...

‘Tropes and lies’

By
Eileen Hayes Arama

WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...

Victimizing a merchant over poorly chosen words

By
Phillip Macracken

BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...

Subscribe to the newsletter for weekly updates

Other Great Stories in The Commons

News

Summer of 2018 waves goodbye as deeper autumnal pattern arrives

By
Dave Hayes
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 — Issue 480

Good day to you, denizens of the verdant Green Mountains of southern Vermont! If you're reading this column on Wednesday (its day of publication) and you enjoy summer weather, seize the present moment and get outside! Unseasonable warmth and humidity are most likely leaving these shores until the spring of 2019, barring any anomalous mid-cold season warm surges, of which we've had a few over the past several years. Autumn is arriving and will be preceded by a good bout...

Read More

Voices

Better safe than sorry

By
Dan DeWalt
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 — Issue 583

Are you ready for action? Because action might be ready for you. President Trump may be temporarily slowed by his foolish self exposure to the coronavirus, but the Republican party's plans to disrupt, dispute, and steal the election are continuing at full speed. Stirring up fears by making false claims about mail-in voting and “crooked Democrats,” they are fabricating a crisis that they then hope to step in and “solve” with the help of the courts, including the Supreme Court,

Read More

Arts

Stone Church Arts begins season with world flute master Gary Stroutsos

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 — Issue 375

Stone Church Arts launches its 12th season with two concerts at the stone church on the hill, 20 Church St, featuring world flute master Gary Stroutsos. On Friday, Sept. 23, Stroutsos performs “Enduring Honor: The Legacy of the Native American Flute.” Then, on Saturday, Sept. 24, he is joined by guitarist and vocalist Tony Garone for a concert that re-imagines the acoustic music of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull. According to a news release, Stroutsos performs world flute music drawn...

Read More

Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1212, Brattleboro, VT 05302

Physical address:
139 Main St, Suites 601A and 604, Brattleboro, VT 05302

888-511-5150
[email protected]

Categories

More Info

The Commons is published by Vermont Independent Media, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.