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BRATTLEBORO-Windham County educators and community members have been quick to stand up for diversity, equity,
Selectboard members were all ears at an April 8 "listening session" and spent most of...
BRATTLEBORO-U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes slept in one of its bedrooms in 1877. Writer Rudyard...
BELLOWS FALLS-Longtime area educator Kate Kane has been named the new principal of Central Elementary...
-Despite a cold and rainy Saturday, thousands of Vermonters poured into the streets to protest the Trump administration and its policies at "Hands Off!" rallies in Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Chester, and Wilmington on April 5. More than 150 activist groups were involved in organizing 1,200 such marches and rallies across all 50 states, and southern Vermont turned out in force. Organizers estimated that more than 1,500 people showed up in Brattleboro, more than 500 turned out in Chester, and a...
The Oct. 4 edition of The Commons' Voices section offered a winning double header about the climate emergency and the role of car-centric culture. Then we had Indigenous Peoples' Day, when their leaders continued to tell us that we need to cut our consumption of everything, including the use of fossil fuels. In fact, Marcie Rendon. an Indigenous leader whose thinking I respect, asks us to cut our consumption in half this year and then in half the following year.
Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards will play the final show of their fall tour at the Stage 33 Live listening room on Sunday, Nov. 20, in a 3 p.m. matinee. The multi-instrumentalist couple “write poetic songs with distinctive harmonies reflecting their personal experiences as factory workers, teachers, community organizers, and natives of post-industrial mill towns,” say organizers. They've released 17 albums and tour consistently throughout the U.S. and Canada, playing guitar, harmonica, ukulele, penny whistle, electric bass, and clarinet to...
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