MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
For years, Connie Burton, owner of Burton Car Wash & Detailing Services in Brattleboro, has asked her customers not to keep the change. She's put out a collection jar at her two locations and her customers have emptied their pockets for various local causes. This year, Burton decided to earmark the proceeds from the change jar to the Green Mountain Camp for Girls in West Dummerston. She recently delivered $941.75, collected since last September, for the camp's scholarship fund. “A...
Jeffrey Lewis is showing the first 12 images from his year of work on a photo project he calls “Strong Bodies: Circus Women.” The show opened during Gallery Walk in Brattleboro on May 4 and will remain up for the rest of the month at Windham Movement Apparel, 2 Elliott Street. Lewis's images of circus women show strength, flexibility, and grace with trapeze, lyra, fabric, and juggling. The nudes are meant to illustrate pride and dedication to the ancient, reviving...
I've always been very grateful for the Voices section of The Commons. How many citizens get a longer format to express an opinion or tell a personal story in their local newspaper? My sense is, not many. I've always likened the process to a three-legged stool represented by the writer, the editor, and the reader. I only have control over what I write and must let it go once it reaches the editor's desk, and can only hope that my...
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