Membership fees for Brattleboro Time Trade are $60 per year. The wrong amount was reported in the May 14 edition of The Commons.
BRATTLEBORO-After eight intense meetings to draft a new budget, the Selectboard has voted to recommend...
BRATTLEBORO-When Richard Berkfield graduated from the School for International Training in 2008, he could not...
BELLOWS FALLS-For more than two decades, residents and community leaders have been working on a...
BRATTLEBORO-On May 1, hundreds of people took to the streets of downtown Brattleboro to protect...
BRATTLEBORO-Property taxes will go up about 8% after the Selectboard voted unanimously July 9 to adopt the fiscal year 2025 property tax rate. Their vote was essentially a rubber stamp to pay for what was decided at this year's Representative Town Meeting, the Grand List, and state-mandated education rates, as Finance Director Kim Frost explained. "The good thing is state statute requires that the Selectboard set the rate, but every decision has been made, so that's a good thing," said...
Recently, we have seen a fair amount of upheaval in our two local food co-ops. I'm referring specifically to various labor and management issues at the Brattleboro Food Co-op, and the current “streamlining the by-laws” debacle at the Putney Co-op. However, this all might have a positive effect, because the open debate encourages more member participation - something in short supply. Participation is what these highly democratic organizations actually depend on. I am a food co-op member-owner who has been...
Textbook descriptions of 20th-century art movements typically trace a progression from abstract expressionism to color field, followed by pop art as a reaction to color field. However, a new exhibit at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), “Figuration Never Died: New York Painterly Painting, 1950–1970,” reveals an untold part of the story, highlighting a generation of New York artists who absorbed the lessons of abstract expressionism but never abandoned figurative painting. Curator Karen Wilkin, an author, art critic, and...
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