YOUR AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT SOURCE OF NEWS AND VIEWS
✕
YOUR AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT SOURCE OF NEWS AND VIEWS
✕
Voices

Reader moons over Crescent

By
Mindy Lawrence
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 — Issue 267

This is a well-written article on Crescent Dragonwagon. I am an alumnus of Fearless Writing and love her honesty when she speaks. She is an outstanding instructor and positive influence.

Voices

‘Nobody knows what I’m going to do’

By
MacLean Gander

MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...

On being Jewish now

By
Deborah Lee Luskin

Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...

Some notes on bravery (and Brahms)

By
Meg Donahue

Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...

Looking beyond generalizations

By
Emily Carris Duncan

Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...

Subscribe to the newsletter for weekly updates

STORY FOOTER GOES HERE

News

Ski jump looks forward to its 100th

By
Kevin O'Connor
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 — Issue 600

COVID-19 forced the Harris Hill Ski Jump to cancel its annual February competition, but it hasn't stopped Vermont's sole Olympic-size venue from leaping forward and launching its centennial celebration for 2022. “There aren't many traditions in sports that go back 100 years,” Peter Graves, an East Thetford resident and 11-time Winter Games broadcaster, said in announcing a Harris Hill Story Project to gather competitor and crowd memories. “Historically, this is one of the oldest tournaments in the world.” It all...

Read More

Voices

Practicing radical acceptance at the community level

By
Brandie Starr
Wednesday, July 24, 2019 — Issue 520

As we read articles and social-media posts touting opportunities for pop-up musicians around town and adding vibrancy to more drab spaces in town (such as the alley way by the Transportation Center), I sincerely hope that we are doing so with the goal of community members of all walks of life being able to enjoy spaces and entertainment side by side with one another. As more and more studies are showing, isolation and ostracization of groups of people directly feeds...

Read More

Arts

Catholic Worker calendars available

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 — Issue 641

A limited number of calendars featuring the artwork of longstanding graphic artist and printmaker Rita Corbin will be available for sale at Everyone's Books at 25 Elliot St. during the holiday season. Corbin, who moved to the area in 1981, lived on and off here until her death in 2011 due to injuries suffered in a car accident. Her children, who live in the Brattleboro area, continue to publish the calendar and cards using her artwork, selling them primarily by...

Read More

Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1212, Brattleboro, VT 05302

Physical address:
139 Main St, Suites 601A and 604, Brattleboro, VT 05302

888-511-5150
[email protected]

Category Menu

Nav Menu

The Commons is published by Vermont Independent Media, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.