NEWFANE-The Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library will present "Painting with Pastel" in September,
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Jazz Center is honored to host Grammy-nominated jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran...
BENNINGTON-Bennington College is now accepting submissions from high school students around the world for its...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-The Good Trouble Street Choir and its leader, Becky Graber, will host a musical...
Hands, wrinkled by time and sun, cradle the tight bundle of white stars against a triangular field of blue. The United States flag, folded like a clenched fist for more than 46 years, opens under the methodical precision of the two elder military color guards. The guards guide four young men from Brattleboro Union High School through raising the flag that once draped the coffin of Petty Officer 3rd Class John Charles Blake. Blake, a Navy Corpsman, died of a...
A production error in last week's Commons inadvertently duplicated a photo by Phoebe Green, which accompanied a story about In-Sight Photography's student art exhibition. The second photograph, by Arcadia R-F, is shown here. We regret the error.
There has been a lot of news about the Windham Solid Waste Management District lately. Closing the Materials Recovery Facility seems to have been a foregone conclusion. Now, let's hold on for a minute: The vote to close the MRF was a close one. I think it's not fair to encourage Brattleboro to use its voting power to settle the issue. WSWMD Executive Director Bob Spencer should have made sure all member towns were treated fairly. Simply put, Brattleboro should...
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