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Representative Town Meeting debates budget

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 — Issue 817

BRATTLEBORO-The May 27 Special Representative Town Meeting took place after this issue of The Commons went to press.

Look for news about the meeting, and the consequences of meeting members' decisions related to town finances, in next week's newspaper.

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A local-history museum adds more to the story

By
Annie Landenberger

NEWFANE-There was a time when the 1825 jail house in Newfane would house up to...

Brattleboro, N.H. ponder future of two bridges

By
Virginia Ray

BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members are proceeding with caution about if and how the town might step up...

Remembering a hero

By
Kevin O'Connor

MARLBORO-As a longtime volunteer and chair of the town's new cemetery commission, Marcia Hamilton annually...

Obuchowski wins seat as new Bellows Falls village president

By
Robert F. Smith

BELLOWS FALLS-In one of three contested races, Paul Obuchowski won his bid for Village Trustees...

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Changes in agriculture are nothing new in Vermont

By
Joyce Marcel
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 — Issue 804

BROOKLINE-In Vermont, it seems that every generation is concerned about the future of the working land. And with good reason. The original settlers grew their own food, yet profited from the making and selling of potash. Merino sheep owners flooded the state when potash was no longer a usable commodity. Dairy farmers produced milk - sometimes too much milk - along with butter and cheese. Organic farming came about in the 20th century. From today's makers of award-winning bespoke products...

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Voices

Cuba’s crisis is our crisis

By
Lissa Weinmann
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 — Issue 789

Lissa Weinmann is a board member of Windham World Affairs Council, a partner in 118 Elliot, and director of the Brattleboro Words Project. She helped found and direct Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba, a coalition that helped ease the embargo's restrictions on food sales to Cuba, and she directed the former World Policy Institute's National Summit on Cuba. BRATTLEBORO-On Oct. 30, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba. The vote in the...

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Arts

Vermont Theatre Company presents night of one-act plays

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 — Issue 788

DUMMERSTON-Vermont Theatre Company (VTC) has released the lineup and casts for its production of one act plays at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center, Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 21–24. VTC Artistic Director Jessica Iris (Gelter) says she has brought together four directors to work in a peer-support cohort to learn, share ideas, advice, and passions with each other while bringing four plays to life. Casey Parles will direct Emotional Baggage by Lindsay Price, an exploration of the feelings we...

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