BRATTLEBORO — It sounds to me like Patrick Leahy doesn't want to be a senator from Vermont anymore.
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...
Events that celebrate a unique quirk of a town - like the Gilfeather Turnip Festival - might look like frivolity on the surface. But Paul Costello said that these community events serve a larger purpose. Events and festivals help bring community members together for something fun that celebrates the town, said Costello, the executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development. But they also help build the town's identity, he said. Such events also attract people to the community...
I met a man last year, a humble man, a man of modest means by all appearance. He called himself a “farmer” - a “tree farmer” - a “tiller of the soil.” He dressed the part and he wore a beard. His name is Jason Herron. “I don't like men with beards,” as Henry Angle once told me for those of you old enough to have known him. “Don't trust them.” But we were there, my wife Sandra and I,
For the month of April, Centre Congregational Church, at 193 Main St., is displaying The Putney School's Tempestry Project. This is the beginning of their 88 Tempestry Project, as 14 tempestries (a combination of words temperature and tapestry) have been completed thus far. These beautifully colorful temperature gauges demonstrate each year's temperature in a knitted or crocheted piece of art. “The Tempestry Project is personal and collaborative fiber art, environmental education, and climate activism through data representation all rolled into...
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