Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
Brown & Roberts, the Main Street hardware and if-you-can't-find-it-here-you-don't-need-it store, will change hands on Sept. 29. Store co-owners and brothers Paul, Robert, and Michael Putnam will sell the family business to Rick Bibens of Springfield. But, said manager Paul Putnam, customers should expect to walk into the same store and find the same people, service and merchandise. Putnam said Bibens plans to employ Brown & Roberts' current staff. The building's iconic wooden floors and inventory of more than 50,000 items...
Award-winning chef Erin Bevan, formerly of the Four Columns Inn and The Hermitage Inn, is coming to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, Aug. 26, at 6 p.m., offering a rare opportunity for guests to dine amid works of art currently on view in the museum's galleries. Diners will enjoy a four-course meal among the (1)upcycled plastic sculptures in "Aurora Robson: Human Nature Walk" and a table arrangement inspired by the still-life paintings in "Alec Egan: Drawing Room."
BRATTLEBORO-It is no exaggeration that the first days of October saw more than one million Lebanese flee in fear of a military onslaught. Disputing this number - well-reported as it happened - is the first of many willful deceits infecting Rhonda Wainshilbaum's reply. The notion that Israel has repeatedly sought peace and its wars are only defensive is baldly baseless as evidenced by its never-ending assassinations, abductions, massacres, incursions, and invasions. At this moment, north of the Netzarim Corridor, nearly...
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