Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. BRATTLEBORO-To the Brattleboro...
Howard Fairman, a native Vermonter, likes to study official public documents and presentations, research their...
BRATTLEBORO-Carolyn Pieciak can tell you how she made peanut butter, jelly, and Fluff sandwiches for her son, State Treasurer Mike Pieciak, long before he sank his teeth into Vermont's financial ledgers. But the 78-year-old Brattleboro resident would rather chew over the smorgasbord of meals she has coordinated as founding leader of St. Brigid's, one of the region's largest soup kitchens. "They say to cook chicken to 165 degrees," she began a recent interview, "although dark meat isn't fully done at...
At a time when things seem to be coming apart all around us, we need people who aren't afraid to speak truth to power and who understand that we as a society cannot move forward when so many of us are left behind. I enthusiastically support Michelle Bos-Lun, who is running for the Windham-4 District House of Representatives seat. Michelle has been walking her talk for a good 20 years and continues to step up to the plate to give...
The Brattleboro Literary Festival is coming to town again in October, and 2011 marks its 10th anniversary. This year, for the first time, workshops will be offered for fiction writers and poets, in conjunction with Marlboro College. These workshops will be hosted by fiction author Nicholas Delbanco and poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Co-founders Suzanne Kingsbury and Sandy Rouse told The Commons about who and what to expect during this year's much-anticipated festival. Rouse, the festival's co-chair, discussed the theme and...
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