BROOKLINE — Thank you, Deb Luskin. It took guts to write this. And thank you to The Commons for publishing.
I am hopeful for change. I pray we can all be kinder to each other in the midst of these revelations.
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
In the middle of March, Next Stage Arts purchased the building on Kimball Hill that houses their offices and performance and programming space. They bought it from the Putney Historical Society. The purchase price, according to Next Stage Executive Director Maria Basescu: “No cost. Just a dollar. It went from one nonprofit to another." “This was always part of the plan,” Basescu said. In the middle of the last decade, the historical society bought the circa-1841 church, located at 15...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) invites children in kindergarten through grade six to dream up, draw, and submit imaginary creatures for the 10th anniversary edition of Glasstastic, the museum's annual celebration of youthful imagination and creativity. Submissions are due by Tuesday, Dec. 8. Guidelines and entry forms can be found at brattleboromuseum.org. Glasstastic has grown from 250 submissions in 2011, its first year, to more than 1,200 in 2018. Approximately 20 glass artists from around New England will...
I love Brattleboro and have always thought of it as a big-hearted community. I'm sure many of you have as well. We've thought it, we've said it, but we have more work to do on it. When I first joined the Selectboard, a previous member told me, “it takes too long to get anything done. I didn't have the patience.” But I'm patient. Before my time on the Selectboard, I served on the Brattleboro Planning Commission, where we worked on...
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