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The Commons will go on holiday break and suspend publication of next week's issue. The next issue of the newspaper will be published and appear online on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Deadline for submissions of news and advertising is Saturday, Jan. 2. The staff of The Commons and the board of directors of Vermont Independent Media wish readers a safe and happy holiday season.
I can't get the pictures out of my mind. The barracks. The women with babies and bundles disembarking from buses. The guards. The packed dining halls and inadequate living quarters. The sons in U.S. military uniform. They are, of course, the images of Japanese-American people interned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center and other internment camps during World War II, many of them now on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Seventy-five years ago,
The Brattleboro Music Center is celebrating the holidays a little early this year, thanks to a $500,000 gift from an anonymous donor. The money supports the Center's ongoing capital campaign. Work has begun on the Guilford Street property that will be the Center's new home next summer. “All of us at the BMC are deeply grateful to the donor for believing wholeheartedly in this project and for helping make our new music center a reality,” BMC Managing Director Mary Greene...
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