BRATTLEBORO — A ban on sale of assault weapons would be good.
A ban on sale of votes by Congress would be better.
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by...
For many, the jury's still out on whether a New York company can or should decommission Vermont Yankee. But Vernon's elected leaders have made up their minds. The town's Selectboard recently voted unanimously to urge the state Public Service Board to approve the former nuclear plant's sale to NorthStar Group Services. Officials also sent a letter to the state to formalize the support of the plant's host town. Town officials wrote that they are “confident in the company's ability to...
I grew up in Latin America, mostly in countries where one was considered either “white” (of Hispanic descent), Indian, or a mixture of both. So, I grew up thinking I was white. Then I came to the United States and discovered I was brown. But I was not alone. Many of my friends from Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela who back home were considered “white” were also going through a similar rebranding process here in the U.S. We first became...
Bricolage is the construction or creation from a diverse range of available things - something constructed or created from what is at hand. The word suggests collage, the medium of Jim Tober's artwork, while Claude Lévi-Strauss introduced the word in anthropology, the disciplinary background of Carol Hendrickson. The Crowell Gallery, 23 West St., is showing the work of these two educators, whose love of creative reconstruction has coexisted with a life in academia and comes to the fore in their...
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