WESTMINSTER — Please allow me this moment to thank the good people of the town of Westminster who took the time to cast a ballot for my candidacy for justice of the peace in this past November's election.
If we encounter each other while out and about, please make yourself known so that I may thank you personally.
Sarah Copeland Hanzas is Vermont's Secretary of State. Prior to her election, she served for...
BRATTLEBORO-Mollie S. Burke has represented District 8 for 16 years. She is a trusted and...
BELLOWS FALLS-All registered voters of Windham-3 - that includes Rockingham, Westminster, and Brookline - please...
WESTMINSTER-My friend Ann Smith and I attended Casey Cota's meeting on the Affordable Heat Act...
ROCKINGHAM-The Rockingham Meeting House has been awarded a National Historic Preservation Grant for $750,000 toward current efforts to preserve the town's first public structure. The funding is one of 19 awarded in nine states by the National Park Service through its Semiquincentennial Grant Program in honor of the nation's 250th anniversary in 2026. The town describes the meeting house as "the largest intact [18th-century] public building remaining in Vermont still in its original material form and in active use." The...
BRATTLEBORO-How to murder a school: Trash talk it and undermine board members; repeatedly vote to close it. Persuade parents to withdraw their students; drive out dedicated, talented staff. Sue it. Jean Anne Kiewel Brattleboro This letter to the editor was submitted to The Commons. This piece, published in print in the Voices section or as a column in the news sections, represents the opinion of the writer. In the newspaper and on this website, we strive to ensure that opinions...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present two events with New York-based artist Mie Yim in connection with the exhibit “Fluid Boundaries”: a walkthrough of the exhibit on Aug. 4 and a chalk art activity during Gallery Walk on Aug. 5. Yim describes the paintings in “Fluid Boundaries” as a blend of the adorable and the unsettling, the real and the dreamlike, the figurative and the abstract. Describing the figure in “Tequila Hangover,” one of the paintings featured...
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