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BRATTLEBORO-At its annual Farm Festival on June 15, the Retreat Farm unveiled its new North...
BRATTLEBORO-Police said Friday afternoon they had arrested a 19-year-old man in connection with a fatal...
BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members have decided to raise parking rates to achieve full recovery for the town...
NEWFANE-Rev. Matthew Deen, settled pastor at Newfane Congregational Church, has been ordained by the Windham-Union...
Our state legislators. We elect them, they disappear into rented Montpelier apartments, they get assigned to committees, they have meetings in the State House, they write - or help write - legislation, they send out newsletters. And meanwhile, the rest of us go about our daily lives and wonder: What exactly are they doing up there? Now that they are in the final weeks of the 2023 session, The Commons thought it would be interesting to see what Windham County...
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Sitting in Alden Wicker's kitchen in the antique home where she and her husband, architect Illich Garcia Recipient of the 2021 American Society of Journalists and Authors Award for business reporting for a piece in Wired scrutinizing the reselling website Poshmark, Wicker's investigative reporting - also published in The New York Times, Vogue, Well, and Good, among others - has broken stories from wide-scale organic cotton industry fraud to TerraCycle's shortcomings. Her 2017 piece "Conscious Consumerism is a Lie" went...
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