BRATTLEBORO — The Archer Mayor bit seems irrelevant and insensitive. I'm surprised you let this go to print.
I expect better from The Commons.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Aug. 29, 2011. The day after Tropical Storm Irene's floodwaters swamped Melrose Terrace, an affordable housing complex in West Brattleboro. The Whetstone Brook's flood-angered waters affected all 80 residents and flooded 40 apartments. Five buildings were severely damaged. When the brook subsided, what had been a green haven for the low-income elderly and disabled adults living at Melrose was a muddy poster child for disaster. May 25, 2017. The 55-unit Red Clover Commons now stands as the poster child for...
While Donald Trump is on a political distraction in Asia, his appalling rhetoric - regarding the Texas massacre and the scapegoating of Americans with mental illnesses as “act(s) of evil,” “deranged,” “horrific,” and “a mental health problem at the highest level,” and his understated defense of the right to bear arms - is preposterous. It is indeed an act of evil and horror to turn the Sutherland Springs violence into one more example of Trump's political opportunism and self-preoccupation. Your...
Like the phoenix that emerged from the Main Street Arts (MSA) gallery on May Day, MSA's summer season “sparks new energy with diverse music and theater performances,” organizers say. The first event, on Friday, May 27 at 7 p.m., features a “beloved” Vermont singer-songwriter, Elizabeth Rogers, who will also be performing this summer at Carnegie Hall. Born and raised in Manhattan, vocalist Rogers began her professional singing career at the age of nine in the children's choruses of the Metropolitan...
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