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Voices

Unacceptable answer

By
Kathy Carr
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 — Issue 172

BRATTLEBORO — It is wonderful that businesses, including Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, have donated money to the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center, but as a community member, I object to the Drop In Center now displaying a “VY 4 VT” sign on the lawn.

“Well, they donated money” is not an acceptable answer.

Voices

Fascinating vignettes

By
Cindy Holden

BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:

Bridges along the Connecticut could be part of a bigger vision

By
Craig Della Penna

FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...

I’m a criminal

By
Kris Pavek

Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...

No one follows the rules of the road anymore

By
Linda Morse

BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by...

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Volunteers sew masks for local hospitals

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 — Issue 556

With a nationwide shortage of professional-grade protective face masks, it has fallen to volunteers who are handy with a sewing machine to fill the gap. Across Windham County, and all over the United States, the needle-and-thread brigade has stepped up to help, as state and national health officials have escalated their call to wear the masks in public. Brattleboro Memorial Hospital has received hundreds of homemade masks from community members. The hospital has produced a flyer with instructions on how...

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Voices

The differences do not traumatize me

By
Cris White
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 — Issue 598

It is hard to know where to start with this long op-ed piece by Dan DeWalt. He starts off asking about how people can believe certain things and not accept facts. What facts, I wonder? The facts he believes? Are we not able to have our own beliefs? Then he says that beliefs that are contrary to his are “incomprehensible to most Americans.” Actually, that isn't true. Rasmussen polling shows about a 50/50 split in our country and 56 percent...

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Arts

Raising the curtain on a forgotten son

By
Wendy M. Levy
Wednesday, October 5, 2016 — Issue 377

During the weekend of Oct. 7, Guilford Center Stage will present “A Battle of Wits,” a comedy melodrama in four acts, directed by William Stearns. All performances are at the theater company's home base, the Broad Brook Grange. Don McLean and Laura Lawson Tucker are co-founders and co-producers of the theater company, and “A Battle of Wits” is its third production. “Part of using the grange is an attempt to get Guilford Center going again, to get people conscious of...

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