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Voices

V-Why not?

By
Al Blakley
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 — Issue 173

BRATTLEBORO — RE: “V-Why?” [Letters, Sept. 25].

Why do the vast majority of anti-Vermont Yankee protesters emanate from outside Vermont?

Voices

With the right support, refugees in rural Vermont can thrive

By
Pablo Bose and Thomas Huddleston

Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...

Representative Town Meeting works for a town the size of Brattleboro

By
Rebecca Bartlett

BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...

The wonder of paradox

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Editing words about war, and our great divide

By
Jeff Potter

Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...

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News

ANR renews enforcement of pre-Irene regs

By
Allison Teague
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 — Issue 127

Tropical Storm Irene wreaked havoc on rivers and streams in southern Vermont, leaving communities stranded, washing out roads and bridges, and destroying homes when waters rose to 100-year, and in some cases, even 500-year, flood levels. Thousands of tons of sand, gravel, and rock were washed out of roadbeds and deposited in streams and rivers, changing their characters forever. The state quickly gave towns and villages permission to use the fluvial debris to rebuild access roads immediately. Just as quickly,

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Voices

Difference, not disability

By
Ben Mitchell
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 — Issue 450

I live in fear. I'm terrified each time I face the scrutiny of power-possessing individuals from the majority population. I have learned over 50 years as a neurological minority that my best hope of survival depends on my ability to pretend to be something I am not, to hide my nature, to pass as “normal.” In first grade I was formally diagnosed with dyslexia and hyperactivity, and I have lived most of my life in the shadow of that diagnosis...

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Arts

House concert features master piper Dick Hensold

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 — Issue 324

Master piper, Dick Hensold, will be doing a solo performance at Wendy's on Tater Lane in Guilford on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m. The concert with multi-bagpiper Hensold features different types of quieter, indoor bagpipes. He is the leading Northumbrian smallpiper in North America, and for the past 20 years has performed and taught in England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, and across the United States. Northumbria was the kingdom that formerly encompassed northern England and southeastern Scotland. Hensold has released...

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