Nancy Braus, a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. Since she submitted this piece,
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
On a rainy afternoon in downtown Brattleboro, Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie visited Main Street businesses and introduced himself to business owners and employees. With seven campaign workers in tow, ranging in age from the late teens to late 20s, the sole Republican candidate for governor stopped into stores to speak with the owners. The top two topics of discussion? Expanding broadband Internet to the rest of Vermont and the economy. Last Friday's heavy rain may have soaked the group's campaign...
Main Street Arts continues its Hands On! music series with a concert Sunday, Feb. 18, at 3 p.m. Classical by Intention: Bach, Stravinsky and Fauré will feature Hugh Keelan on piano and Gudrun Weeks on violin. The program includes the Duo Concertant by Igor Stravinsky, J.S. Bach's Concerto nach Italienischen Gusto ('Italian' Concerto) and Sonata for Violin and Piano in A by Gabriel Fauré. Weeks currently plays with the Windham Orchestra and is one of the founders of the Brattleboro...
Rhonda Wainshilbaum is an artisan and a civic volunteer, living and working in Massachusetts, just over the Vermont line. The anti-Israel letter from Jewish Voice for Peace, published in The Commons recently, contained fallacies, omissions, and inaccuracies. Accusing Israel of genocide is a provocative indictment unsupported by facts. It diminishes real acts of genocide - such as those that occurred in the Holocaust and against Armenians and in Rwanda. Since their creation in 1948, Israelis have sought to live in...
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