YOUR AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT SOURCE OF NEWS AND VIEWS
✕
YOUR AWARD WINNING, INDEPENDENT, NONPROFIT SOURCE OF NEWS AND VIEWS
✕
Voices

Thanks for a deep look at a sad story

By
Anneke Toomey
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 — Issue 100

Thanks so much for publishing such an excellent piece on Dave Shapiro's sad and untimely passing [“How could this happen?”, The Commons, May 4].

I really appreciated that you took the time to look at this in depth.

Voices

What has the U.S. done?

By
Kate Kenner

GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...

Keeping faith in ‘interesting times’

By
The Beloved Community VT

The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...

Election results: obvious, but still shocking

By
M.N. Scherbatskoy

WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...

We’ve become a business with a community problem

By
Hannah Sorila

Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...

Subscribe to the newsletter for weekly updates

STORY FOOTER GOES HERE

News

Scrambling to learn new software and technology

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 — Issue 558

Windham Southeast Supervisory Union's remote learning isn't happening in a vacuum. It is also surrounded by individual families' circumstances and a global pandemic. “It's all a challenge, and it'll continue to be a challenge,” said Deb Kardane, the district's curriculum coordinator. WSESU Math Tutor Tine Biolsi is riding the learning curve as well. The videoconferencing software Zoom was an unknown platform for her. Now, she teaches other people how to use the program and do things such as create breakout...

Read More

Voices

Lori Miller will be missed at Parks Place

By
Frankie Knibb
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 — Issue 708

A bundle of boundless energy, Lori Miller shared her considerable talents as a volunteer gardener at Parks Place Community Resource Center in Bellows Falls for 17 years. A certified master gardener since 2006, she soon became a volunteer at Parks Place, developing a garden where visitors and staff could find a calming patch of land that offers respite, a space for reflection and, of course, beauty. She spent many of those years as project leader, coordinating the efforts of community...

Read More

Arts

Four new exhibits open at BMAC

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 — Issue 705

Four new exhibits open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, March 11, with an opening reception at 11 a.m. “The highlighted artists probe some of the most fundamental aspects of human experience,” say organizers, “including how we connect and relate to one another and to ourselves.” Mental health, immigration, ritual, and memory take center stage. These new exhibitions join “Keith Haring: Subway Drawings,” which remains on view through April 16. The opening reception, will feature many...

Read More

Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1212, Brattleboro, VT 05302

Physical address:
139 Main St, Suites 601A and 604, Brattleboro, VT 05302

888-511-5150
info@commonsnews.org

Category Menu

Nav Menu

The Commons is published by Vermont Independent Media, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.