BROOKLINE — Thank you, Deb Luskin. It took guts to write this. And thank you to The Commons for publishing.
I am hopeful for change. I pray we can all be kinder to each other in the midst of these revelations.
BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,
BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,
Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...
BRATTLEBORO-On this damp and gray Memorial Day, the traditional service in front of the town's war memorial at the Town Common was moved indoors to American Legion Post 5 on Linden Street. For incoming Post 5 commander Jay Mills, it was the first Memorial Day service he was in charge of, and he said that a lot of changes had to be made on the fly, starting with a last-minute cancellation by the keynote speaker. Instead, Post 5 Chaplain and...
As I write this letter, the Wet'suwet'en First Nation peoples, on their unceded, ancestral land in British Columbia, are under armed attack by the Canadian government. It is an old story, one as old as the “discovery” of the Americas and as recent as Standing Rock a couple of years ago. Their Unist'ot'en Healing Centre, built in the path of the gas pipeline that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying to force through their territory, was surrounded by militarized Royal...
With a new album being released in August and a multi-city national tour underway this week with her band Southern Star, harpist and singer/songwriter Mikaela Davis, 31, of Catskill, New York is garnering a lot of well-deserved attention these days. The band, which performs for the first time at the Stone Church on Thursday, June 15, includes Davis on harp and vocals, Alex Coté on drums, Cian McCarthy on guitars and vocals, Shane McCarthy on bass and vocals, and Kurt...
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