Voices
Common interests, or us-versus-them?
Landlords respond to a proposal to prohibit advance collection of last month's rent
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
BRATTLEBORO-I have driven down Canal Street in Brattleboro and had a bicycle come flying by...
Svetlana Karpenko, 50, and her 12-year-old son, Artem, live in an apartment on the 10th floor of a 12-story building in a part of Kyiv, Ukraine that has not been heavily bombed - yet. But the sirens warning of incoming bombs are still regularly going off. They do not feel safe. They are not safe. Another son, Andrey, 32, now a soldier fighting against the Russians, was able to bring his girlfriend, daughter, and a stepson to Poland, one week...
I began teaching my first new class in person on July 13 - four months after the last class I taught in person before the college where I work went entirely online for the rest of the semester. The need to reopen schools and colleges is a real problem in a time when the COVID-19 pandemic shows signs of exploding in the United States rather than receding. It is a problem playing out across the nation. A recent article in...
The documentary, From Shock to Awe (2018), will be screened at Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St., on Friday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. There is a suggested donation of $10. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. According to a news release, “From Shock to Awe asks, 'how do we heal our deepest wounds?'” The film follows Matt Kahl and Mike Cooley, two combat veterans struggling to live with PTSD as they turn away from pharmaceutical dependency...
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