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Focus on Act 46

On towns’ options for school choice and the pressure for change
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — Issue 355

• Viewpoint: Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe on towns' ultimate autonomy in offering school choice to their respective students.

• Counterpoint: Compass School Director Rick Gordon responds to Holcombe's piece.

• Viewpoint: David Schoales, a member of the Brattleboro Selectboard and Town School Board, offers his personal point of view on the rush to change.

Voices

Fascinating vignettes

By
Cindy Holden

BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:

Bridges along the Connecticut could be part of a bigger vision

By
Craig Della Penna

FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...

I’m a criminal

By
Kris Pavek

Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...

No one follows the rules of the road anymore

By
Linda Morse

BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by...

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News

Chamber recognizes service to community

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 — Issue 342

This year's Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce's Person of the Year award went to not one person, but many. Chamber members honored the many Reformer Christmas Stocking board members on Jan. 28 with the chamber's Person (or in this case, Persons) of the Year award. Over its 78-year history of providing winter clothing to children, the volunteers behind the Christmas Stocking collected $3 million in funds, connected with families, purchased clothing, and organized comments from donors that appeared in the...

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Voices

An unreasonable, but terribly powerful, fear

By
Maggie Brown Cassidy
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 — Issue 328

I am so grateful for this commentary, which names the unreasonable, but terribly powerful, fear - of a tyrannical government actually disarming citizens - behind so many opponents of gun-safety laws.

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Arts

Medicine for the body and soul

By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 — Issue 486

Can music really heal the physical body? “Leading scientific research says yes,” writes opera-singer-turned-healer Donatella Moltisanti. Moltisanti, a New York-based alternative wellness practitioner who calls herself a “soul healer,” writes that “whether singing lullabies or sacred chants, mothers and religious leaders have known for millennia what scientists are only beginning to understand: Singing has the extraordinary power to uplift, transport, and heal us, as well as to connect us to the Divine.” To support her contention, Moltisanti cites recent studies...

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