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Voices

‘Good’ grief

By
Gene Herman
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 — Issue 153

RE: “A good session for our lawmakers” [Editorial, May 16]:

A “good session” if you call redistributing other people's money good.

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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Marshall: Shumlin’s promise of broadband by 2013 is on schedule

By
Taylor Dobbs
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 — Issue 108

Karen Marshall, chief of ConnectVT, says Gov. Peter Shumlin's campaign pledge to extend universal broadband access to every last mile by 2013 is on track. Shumlin launched ConnectVT (not to be confused with ConnectVermont, an Agency of Transportation project), shortly after he took office, and Marshall is the standalone entity's sole employee. She has no budget per se and no employees to manage. Her office is on the Fifth Floor of the Pavilion building, where the governor's closest advisors work.

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Voices

Keep an eye on what you fry

By
Michael Bucossi
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 — Issue 224

How often has the doorbell rung or a child interrupted you while you were cooking, causing you to forget about the chicken you left sizzling on the stove - until smoke filled the house? If this scenario or a similar one sounds familiar to you, you might want to think about it a little more, because it's likely that you, a friend or family member has run the risk of having a dangerous fire. The staff of the Brattleboro Fire...

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Arts

Artists to teach collage art workshop at MSA

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 — Issue 735

Three Vermont artists - Matthew J. Peake, Gordon Korstange, and Gretchen Abendschein - will lead "Alone Together," a workshop on creating merge collages at Main Street Arts (MSA) on Sunday, Oct. 15, at 2 p.m. The fee for the workshop is $20 per person. An exhibit of their own merge collages runs through Oct. 29. The art show displays a number of collaborative and individual works available for purchase, with a portion of the sales going to MSA. "We have...

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