BROOKLINE — A measure of a man is how he treats others.
It's nice to see the attention paid to the students and the respect to the teacher. We need more of this! Go Bernie!
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...
A new land inventory report offers a series of possibilities for the Vermont Yankee site to eventually be used for industry, recreation, preserving habitat, and recognizing the Abenaki relationship to the banks of the Connecticut River, past and present. The report is a collaboration between Antioch University New England, NorthStar, the town of Vernon, and Rich Holschuh, representing the Elnu Abenaki tribe. It exists in a hard copy and an online interactive version. The nuclear plant started operating in 1972...
What made me go to Texas? Last spring, the news filtered in that a U.S. representative from El Paso named Robert Francis O'Rourke, nicknamed Beto (Bet-toe), was challenging Ted Cruz for a Senate seat held by Republicans since the early 1990s. Cruz was considered a lock at the time, and Texas opinion writers gave Beto no chance. Texas was flat-out red. Then came a turning point. At an August Town Hall meeting, Beto took a question from someone offended that...
Artist Carol Keiser moved to the area in 1970 to attend Antioch Graduate School and liked it so much she never left. On Saturday, Sept. 30, Keiser will realize a longtime dream: the opening of her own art gallery to showcase her four decades of work. "I'm very excited to have the whole body of my work hanging in one place again," she says. "It's thrilling to see it that way." Keiser paints on canvas and tile and works in...
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