BRATTLEBORO — I have come to view Donald Trump simply as “The Abscess.”
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...
All three open seats on the Selectboard here will see races on Town Meeting Day on Tuesday, March 7. Incumbent Elizabeth McLoughlin is being challenged by former Selectboard member Richard DeGray for a three-year seat, while incumbent Jessica Gelter is vying with four other candidates for two one-year seats. In-person voting will take place Tuesday, March 7 at American Legion Post 5, 32 Linden St., from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Absentee ballots must be requested, because — unlike the...
This Thanksgiving season, due to COVID-19 and the precariousness of life, I find myself feeling gratitude for each small gesture and kind word extended in everyday life. Perhaps because we now live under a larger shadow of death, I no longer take these ordinary niceties for granted. Has COVID-19 brought forth more simple acts of kindness among strangers, or am I now more aware of a humble graciousness that has quietly been here all along? I feel grateful to inhabit...
Celebrate New Year's Day at Epsilon Spires with a screening of The Phantom Carriage on the 100th anniversary of the film's release, with a live score performed by on the 1906 Estey pipe organ. Composer Jeff Rapsis, who is also a newspaper publisher and executive director of the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire, has been playing live music to silent films since 2007. His style is largely improvisatory, incorporating compositional elements from the present as well as the past. “I...
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