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Voices

Warming

By
Byron Stookey
Sunday, July 30, 2023 — Issue 724

BRATTLEBORO — Shut off air conditioning in all government offices in the 10 most offending countries*.

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Voices

With the right support, refugees in rural Vermont can thrive

By
Pablo Bose and Thomas Huddleston

Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...

Representative Town Meeting works for a town the size of Brattleboro

By
Rebecca Bartlett

BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...

The wonder of paradox

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Editing words about war, and our great divide

By
Jeff Potter

Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...

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News

Fate of Rite Aid pharmacy will be determined

By
Habib Sabet
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 — Issue 816

BRATTLEBORO-Rite Aid expects to close or sell off all five of its Vermont locations, including one on Canal Street, as the struggling national pharmacy chain goes through bankruptcy proceedings. In court filings, the company has said it plans to wind down operations at the more than 1,200 drugstores it operates nationwide in the coming months. Other locations include Bethel, Randolph, Springfield, and Windsor. According to court documents, Rite Aid is actively trying to auction off rather than immediately shutter many...

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Voices

In 1920, she took the oath

By
Jerry Carbone
Tuesday, August 27, 2024 — Issue 779

Jerry Carbone started Whetstone Brook Genealogy to help individuals understand their family history "by uncovering generations of family stories, artifacts, and documents, while using professional and trusted genealogical research standards, as described on his website. He is retired from a 22-year career as the director of Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro. For the version of this story that puts an accent on the genealogy, including full citations, visit bit.ly/MR-Citations. BRATTLEBORO-More than 100 years have passed since women received the right...

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Arts

Epsilon Spires presents free organ concert in its Lunchtime Pipe Organ Series

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 — Issue 699

At noon on Wednesday, Feb. 1, Dr. Justin Murphy-Mancini will perform a recital that ranges in time from the 17th-century composer Dieterich Buxtehude to contemporary pieces by the Franco-Lebanese organist Naji Hakim and the 95-year-old American composer Emma Lou Diemer. The program also includes a sonata by Felix Mendelssohn and J.S. Bach’s Passacaglia in C. “Every piece on the program is a set of variations of one kind or another, allowing for the instrument’s great variety to be communicated by...

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