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Voices

Hits the nail on the head

By
Pat DeAngelo
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 — Issue 145

BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Our nuclear spring” [Editorial, March 14].

Once again, The Commons hits the nail on the head! What a great bunch of news people you are.

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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Cold air arrives, with snow and freezing rain later this week

By
Dave Hayes
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 — Issue 485

Good day to you, my neighbors to the north! It will feel and look more like early winter than the middle of autumn this week and into the weekend, of that I am certain. We've got a brutally cold Wednesday on tap with strong wind and the coldest air of the new cold season on the way. Thursday is cold and sunny as well, but clouds will be increasing late in the day. Then we have snow, sleet, and freezing...

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Voices

On false promises and outright deceit

By
Dan DeWalt
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 — Issue 733

What makes politicians publicly embrace a lie when the truth is staring them in the face? "There is an apartheid state here. In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state." A simple statement of fact - in this case made recently by Tamir Pardo, a former head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, referring to Israel's current system of treatment of Palestinians. Pardo is not the only Israeli official to say so.

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Arts

Marigold brings live music to area scene

By
Annie Landenberger
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 — Issue 817

BRATTLEBORO-The local music scene is getting even richer since Glenn Alper of Northampton, Massachusetts, bought the River Garden building last summer. The space at 157 Main St., most recently the River Garden Marketplace, has reopened as Marigold, a café, bar, and live music venue. "I see us being kind of a social hub for Brattleboro, the surrounding communities, and the creative community especially," Alper says. "I'm blown away by how much talent there is locally and want to support that...

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