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Voices

Happy 100th!

By
Lee and Byron Stookey
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 — Issue 101

BRATTLEBORO — Congratulations to you all on a terrific issue.  One hundred issues is great cause for celebration.  Here's to the next 100!

Voices

With the right support, refugees in rural Vermont can thrive

By
Pablo Bose and Thomas Huddleston

Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...

Representative Town Meeting works for a town the size of Brattleboro

By
Rebecca Bartlett

BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...

The wonder of paradox

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Editing words about war, and our great divide

By
Jeff Potter

Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...

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News

EPA brownfield grant will assist with clean-up, reuse of Birge Street site

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 — Issue 457

A former sawmill and lumber yard on Birge Street is one of six sites in Vermont that will receive funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for brownfield site revitalization efforts. According to a news release, Vermont River Conservancy is getting a $200,000 grant for clean-up work at 250 Birge St. The conservancy is among 221 grantees nationwide that shared in a total of $54.3 million in funding to provide communities with the resources to assess, clean up, and redevelop...

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Voices

Lawrence, Banik: will serve and not be served

By
Bruce Peter Murray
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 — Issue 804

WESTMINSTER-Friends and neighbors of Westminster: Shortly you will be asked to cast your ballot for two open Selectboard seats. This year the stakes could not be higher. Many of us have seen our most recent property tax bill increase by as much as 25%. This has placed a serious financial burden on us all. As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, each year we open a property tax bill we see an increase.

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Arts

Baker Street Readers ring in New Year with ‘Jeeves & Wooster’

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 — Issue 745

The Baker Street Readers will celebrate New Year's by performing An Evening with Jeeves & Wooster on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 30 and 31, at the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, 139 Main St. The Readers are most known for reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries but are changing things up with another of England's famed literary duos. Bertie Wooster and his trusty valet Jeeves are the creations of P. G. Wodehouse, who wrote 35 short stories and 11 novels about the pair.

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