Excellent article, thanks! Do you think Hillary Clinton asked Patrick Leahy to be vice president or secretary of state?
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...
The Winston Prouty Center for Child Development has outgrown its building located off of Guilford Street. The school that supports early childhood education and family programs is looking to other nonprofits to share ownership of the former Austine School and Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing's (VCDHH) approximately 200-acre campus. Winston Prouty Executive Director Chloe Learey told The Commons this spring that the center had planned to break ground on a $2 million dollar expansion at its...
I love Brattleboro. I love its down-to-earth-ness coupled with its flair for creativity. I love that I can walk to the co-op, to the library, to the hardware store, and to the woods. I love that we have curbside compost. I love that we come up with compassionate, practical programs like the recently announced day-work program. At the same time, the Brattleboro we have is not the ideal Brattleboro. We struggle with homelessness and addiction. We struggle to retain and...
The Brattleboro Music Center's 2016-17 Chamber Music Series continues with a performance by an eclectic ensemble of five musicians curated by BMC Music School faculty member Judith Serkin. Called Con Moto, the ensemble includes musicians well known to Brattleboro audiences. The concert is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m., at the Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro. Clarinetist William Amsel, violinists Michelle Ross and Lucy Chapman, violist Dimitri Murrath, and cellist Judith Serkin will play an early string quartet...
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