A great project, and one I am happy and honored to be involved in.
Derrik Jordan has found a new way to get visionary musicians' work seen and heard. He is a consummate host who always seems to ask the right questions.
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
The writer is a Town Meeting member representing District 8. BRATTLEBORO-As part of Brattleboro's FY26...
A consultant is urging the state to make dramatic changes to its health care system, including repurposing inpatient units at Grace Cottage and three other hospitals, consolidating services at others, and reforming how and how much facilities are paid for care. If fully enacted, the recommendations, contained in a 144-slide presentation released on Sept. 18, would lead to a sweeping transformation of Vermont's health care landscape. The report envisions a system in which much care takes place outside hospitals, where...
At the Labor Day Town Hall on Brattleboro's Town Common, I publicly thanked Sen. Bernie Sanders for his leadership to end the U.S.-backed war in Yemen. I appreciate his earlier efforts to stop this country's warmongering without congressional approval. When asked that day, he agreed to introduce another Yemen War Powers Resolution. It's time to make that happen, now, the tools already exist. This is the only legislation that meets the urgency. Yemeni-Americans agree that other war powers reform actions...
The Commons recently spoke with Danny Lichtenfeld, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center's executive director since 2007, about the history of the museum and its programming, vision, and 50th anniversary celebration. We also caught up with BMAC's Curator Emerita Mara Williams, who served as the museum's director from 1989 to 2004 and as chief curator from that point until her retirement last year, to get her thoughts on these topics, as well as Lichtenfeld's 15 years at the helm. Following...
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