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.
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...
At press time, The Commons received unconfirmed results of the annual village election on Tuesday. In the only contested race, which drew three candidates for two two-year trustees' seats, Evelyn Weeks received 163 votes, with 137 voting for incumbent Trustee Colin James. The third candidate, Deborah Wright, received 78 votes. Nancy McAuliffe, who ran unopposed, remains village president for the next year. During Monday night's budget debate, voters rejected a motion to reduce the budget, which might have eliminated most...
We have lost millions of lives around the world to the Coronavirus and its variants. To end this pandemic, a large share of the world needs to be immunized with a vaccine. Vaccine inequity is everywhere. G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union - have purchased more than one third of the world's vaccine supply, despite making up only 10 percent of the global population. In the United States,
Project HOPE facilitator Amber Paris will offer two free, open-materials, page-making workshops at the Putney Public Library in February. Paris has initiated project HOPE's “Community Book of Hope” at the Library as a collaborative, community effort. Artists and writers of all ages are invited to give work created around the prompt: “hope is...” which will be collectively hand-bound into a book that will remain at the Library. Workshop dates are Monday, Feb. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., and Sunday,
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