BRATTLEBORO — Whoever painted this graffiti on a rock in the West River estuary, please desist.
Haven't we already done enough to the Abenaki lands?
Painted rocks on the West River.
Voices
BRATTLEBORO-We are living in a moment of deep crisis for our democracy. Billionaires and political...
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...
At her second meeting since formation of a new Windham Southeast Supervisory Union school board, Chair Michelle Luetjen Green admitted that the hiring process to select a new superintendent raised “concerns that we did not secure a fair process for all applicants to be reviewed, assessed, and deliberated on.” She told The Commons that her words are a “personal statement that I felt should be acknowledged sooner than later.” Her comment came at the same March 30 meeting where parent...
Two examples of early cinema will be shown at Epsilon Spires on Saturday, March 18, starting at 8 P.M.: Alfred Hitchcock's last silent film, Blackmail! (1929, 76 minutes), and Lois Weber's Suspense! (1913, 10 minutes). This event kicks off the spring 2023 series of silent films screened with live musical accompaniment in Epsilon Spires' converted historic chapel. Blackmail! follows the travails of a young woman who kills a man while defending herself from assault and is then blackmailed by an...
BRATTLEBORO-Stop making Brattleboro a dumping ground for all the greater region's criminal and drug population. Other towns need to share in the effort to combat these societal problems. It cannot all rest on Brattleboro's shoulders. Otherwise, Brattleboro will eventually collapse under the weight and become a dystopian hellscape of crime, drugs, and homelessness, as Portland, Oregon has become and as Burlington, Vermont is becoming. To be clear, homelessness does not always coincide with drug behavior and crime, but it is...
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