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This letter to the editor by Jeff Potter was written for The Commons.
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This letter to the editor by Jeff Potter was written for The Commons.
BRATTLEBORO-Since moving to Brattleboro over a year ago, I have learned that there are so...
BRATTLEBORO-The Anti-Defamation League's 2024 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents reports a deeply troubling rise in antisemitism...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-U.S. Rep. Becca Balint claims that President Trump "does not give a damn about...
The writer is a Town Meeting member representing District 8. BRATTLEBORO-As part of Brattleboro's FY26...
15 years ago January 2009 issue Dummerston Selectboard Chair Andrew MacFarland, writing to his town's Planning Commission, recently noted an "inevitable tension." The planning process, which seeks the common good but might well not accommodate the wishes of particular individuals and groups, must coexist with the political process, which "must take into account the personal, interpersonal, social and emotional responses to the plan," MacFarland wrote. Even with broadly shared goals among affected parties, the difference between a town plan's vision...
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt uttered his famous phrase, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," at his first inaugural address in 1933, he recognized that fear of the Great Depression could paralyze people and interfere with ways to address an unprecedented economic crisis. He realized that catastrophic thinking and overwhelming anxiety had the power to harm his plan for economic (and political) recovery. He recognized, as Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl did, that "between stimulus and response there...
BRATTLEBORO-"An Hour to Dance" is the Brattleboro Concert Choir's invitation to be moved by music made for dance. Directed by Jonathan Harvey, the choir's performances will feature dance-focused choral works by Gwyneth Walker, Johannes Brahms, Sydney Guillaume, and Charles Stanford. Two concerts are scheduled, the first on Saturday, Jan. 18, at 7 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre; the second is Sunday, Jan. 19, at 4 p.m., also at the Latchis. The program "is an exploration and celebration of the relationship...
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