BRATTLEBORO — Landmark College journalism student William Epifanio contributed reporting to the July 3 Special Focus section “Flying signs.” The Commons attributed him incorrectly in the credits for that project.
BRATTLEBORO-George Stone Sr., closing in on his 101st birthday, is one of the last members...
-On a Sunday night, Kelsey Rice found her abuser at her home again, out on...
BRATTLEBORO-The cause of the March 26 fires that temporarily displaced 126 at the School of...
BRATTLEBORO-Caz Clark is the safety and outreach manager at the Brattleboro Food Co-op, a position...
The Retreat Farm will unearth stories buried in the history of the property, starting with the Abenaki people and continuing through its days housing a tavern and its decades of connection to the Brattleboro Retreat psychiatric hospital. The nonprofit has received a $40,000 Historic Places planning grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which will fund planning and creating interpretive walking paths and interactive museum exhibits that encompass generations of human activity on the 600-acre site. The farm is...
Next Stage Arts Project invites the community to a free, virtual New Year's Eve celebration on Thursday, Dec. 31, from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring performances from a variety of local musicians, puppeteers, poets, storytellers, business owners, and visual artists. A lineup of local performers will provide entertainment from 7 to 9 p.m. Guests will be connected with other diners and performers via zoom for an interactive and intimate holiday celebration. Local performers include The Stockwell Brothers, Sunny Lowdown, Bad...
BRATTLEBORO-It is disturbing that the Newfane and Brattleboro Selectboards have agreed to warn an anti-Israeli article in their respective Town Meetings. I believe this approach is overly one-sided and counterproductive. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is deeply complex, and using such charged language as "apartheid" risks alienating members of the community and oversimplifying a nuanced issue. Labeling Israel as an apartheid state is wrong. Israel has always been a democratic system and enjoyed equal voting rights for all citizens, including its Arab...
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