Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
On a gray, drizzly day in a region still drying out from Tropical Storm Irene, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., visited Allen Brothers Farm to announce three agricultural bills aimed at opening federal funds for uninsured farmers. “You've got to farm another day,” said Welch to the farmers who met with him. “[Recovery is] impossible without money, and we've got to help,” he added. The farmers who spoke with Welch on Oct. 18 questioned whether the money would meet their...
Canal Street Art Gallery's “A Moment in Frame - Photography” show is on view to the public through April 6. All are invited to attend the artist reception at the gallery on 23 Canal St., from 5 to 8 p.m., on the BF 3rd Friday Gallery Night on March 15. For this show, 1 percent of profits will be given to a fund for the maintenance of existing public art in the town of Rockingham through a special Public Art...
Many of you have read of the vile and racist comments uttered by a police officer at the meeting of the Vermont Criminal Justice Council (VCJC) on Feb. 7. An undocumented worker spoke of being afraid to leave the farm because of Vermont's law enforcement's continued cooperation with federal immigration and his fear of deportation. Mike Major, a deputy at the Chittenden County Sheriff's Office, then said, on a hot mic, "You're f-ing here illegally and you're worried about being...
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