David v. Goliath

Moss Linder

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 — Issue 136

Little Bread & Puppet state goes up against big nuke and the fed gummit.

What could go wrong?

Voices

Seeing difference as a strength, not a weakness

Marc Thurman

Marc Thurman is the director of the Centers for Diversity and Inclusion at Landmark College.

Irony and hypocrisy

Karen Tyler

BRATTLEBORO-Charlie Kirk very publicly said that he believed it was worth the cost of a...

Trump and Republicans are trampling on our most sacred freedoms

Stephen Stearns

BRATTLEBORO-Are you thinking about our Constitution's First Amendment today? I am. Before our revolution in...

We need to come out for the next No Kings march on Oct. 18

Dan DeWalt

WILLIAMSVILLE-Every day we wake up to news of yet another assault on our Constitution and...

STORY FOOTER GOES HERE

What would you do to support your cause? Six young adults concerned about climate change are bicycling more than 1,000 miles around Vermont and New Hampshire to focus attention on the impacts of fossil fuel use on New England. They arrived in Brattleboro on June 25 and departed on July 1. Between, they held “tabling” sessions at the Brattleboro Bike Shop, Burrow's Specialized Sports, and the Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market; held “climate cafés” at Equilibrium and the Stone Church; and...

My partner in song

Fran Lynggaard Hansen

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 — Issue 802

Fran Lynggaard Hansen, a Brattleboro native with deep connections to local history and to people everywhere, is a Commons reporter and columnist. BRATTLEBORO-I began teaching abroad in 2012 and spent three years in two cities in China, one year in Egypt, and two years in Kuwait. After three months in Sudan, I left only because the school hadn't paid me, and I moved on to the eastern European city of Yerevan, Armenia and began teaching there. This gorgeous city of...

Out of the box

Virginia Ray

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 — Issue 695

Writer Wyn Cooper's first novel, Way Out West, has plenty of thrills and chills, but none, it seems, as big as the one its publication provided the author. “I've been lucky in my life, and readily admit it, but nothing prepared me for the thrill of having my first novel published,” Cooper says. Way Out West follows the developing relationship between two protagonists as they try to complete a sci-fi B-movie that might or might not be a cover for...

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David v. Goliath

Moss Linder

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 — Issue 136

Voices

Seeing difference as a strength, not a weakness

Irony and hypocrisy

Trump and Republicans are trampling on our most sacred freedoms

We need to come out for the next No Kings march on Oct. 18

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STORY FOOTER GOES HERE

News

Pedalling for a cause

Randolph T. Holhut and Jeff Potter

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 — Issue 210

Voices

My partner in song

Fran Lynggaard Hansen

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 — Issue 802

Arts

Out of the box

Virginia Ray

Wednesday, December 21, 2022 — Issue 695

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