TOWNSHEND — Great interview; very inspiring! We're lucky to have companies like Mondo Mediaworks in Brattleboro!
BRATTLEBORO-Big thanks to Joyce Marcel for an excellent article/interview with Becca Balint, and big thanks...
BRATTLEBORO-As I listen to all the reports of what's happening in the Texas Legislature, I...
SAXTONS RIVER-An open letter to Gov. Phil Scott: On Aug. 10, I received an email...
GUILFORD-In the subheading referring to "the 'cruelty' of the budget bill," I understand why you...
“I would like to say one or two things about other things happening in our country.” With those words, U.S. Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., launched into a critique of the Trump administration and the Republican majority delivered to a packed house at the Latchis Theatre on March 16. It's been nearly two years since Bernie Sanders has last visited Brattleboro, and it was clear he is as popular as ever. Sanders was there to announce $300,000...
Gregory Lesch is executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce. As The Commons noted in its Jan. 10 front-page story by Joyce Marcel ["Vermonters ask: Where have all the workers gone?"], southern Vermont faces a serious labor shortage and a rapidly aging population that is compounded by a tight housing market. State-supported transitional housing for incoming refugees addresses these issues head-on. Welcoming these new Vermonters is not just a humanitarian effort, it's also a strategic economic measure. Since...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of traditional and contemporary Celtic and fiddle music by the band Kalos and duo O'Brien & Flick on Friday, Sept. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Three innovative interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music - Eric McDonald (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Ryan McKasson (fiddle, viola, vocals), and Jeremiah McLane (accordion, piano, vocals) - draw on years of experience performing with the likes of Cantrip, Nightingale, The Clayfoot Strutters, and Alasdair Fraser &
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