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Correction

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 — Issue 54

Correction

ROCKINGHAM —

ROCKINGHAM-A story on a proposed municipal merger between Rockingham and Bellows Falls [The Commons, June 10] incorrectly stated that no Rockingham residents had served as Town Manager.

Jim Mullen, who served as Town Manager before current Interim Manager Francis “Dutch” Walsh, is a Rockingham resident.

Also, the Merger Committee headed by Thom MacPhee first met in June 2009, with its final report released in November 2009.

News

Consultant to GMCB: four hospitals need ‘major restructuring’ to survive

By
Peter D'Auria

A consultant is urging the state to make dramatic changes to its health care system,

Brattleboro to hire more police, citing rise in crime

By
Ellen Pratt

BRATTLEBORO-After a summer of standing-room-only meetings about public safety in town, the Selectboard voted on...

Helping organic farms blossom

By
Annie Landenberger

NEWFANE-It's a mid-September afternoon, warm under a bright late-summer sky, and Laura Xiao of By...

Republicans, independents mount challenges

By
Joyce Marcel

BRATTLEBORO-The Commons reached out to challengers to incumbents in state legislative seats, inviting them to...

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Windham County, by the numbers

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 — Issue 76

Rural health and pain management specialist Margaret Caudill-Slosberg, a medical doctor and a Ph.D who also holds a master's degree in public health, and who has taught at Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, recently examined democgraphics and health care trends in Windham County. Caudill-Slosberg, whose official title is Rural Health Quality Improvement Specialist Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care, did this work in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The link to...

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Voices

VY land deserves to be more than a used industrial site

By
Ameila Shea
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 — Issue 429

Some environmentalists, in reference to the current practices of factory farming, overfishing, and methods for energy extraction such as fracking, have called the Western industrialized view of the environment a war against nature. This view applies to the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernon as well. Over its 42-year history, tons of radioactive waste have been stored on the land there and the Connecticut River has been used as a repository for VY's heat and waste. In terms of environmental...

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Arts

Next Stage Bandwagon Series presents Afrobeat ensemble Armo

Wednesday, August 9, 2023 — Issue 726

The Next Stage "Bandwagon Summer Series" presents Afrobeat ensemble Armo on Friday, Aug. 18, at 6 p.m., at the Retreat Farm, 45 Farmhouse Square. Armo's sound focuses on classic and contemporary Afrobeat. Founded by longtime Antibalas bandmates Amayo (vocals, keyboards), Jordan McLean (trumpet, percussion), Marcus Farrar (percussion, vocals), Nikhil P. Yerawadekar (guitar, keyboards), Kevin Raczka (drums), and Justin Kimmel (bass), Armo creates spontaneous arrangements of the music of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, The Daktaris, Ebo Taylor, William Onyeabor, The Art Ensemble...

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