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Voices

Sneaky humor

By
Ernest Hebert
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 — Issue 157

RE: “Coming home” [Arts, June 13].

Grants Ferry is a very good read. I especially liked David Chase's sneaky sense of humor.

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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With VY sale, a new era dawns in Vernon

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 — Issue 493

A new black, blue, and white sign reading “NorthStar: Vermont Yankee Decommissioning Project” appears on Governor Hunt Road, having replaced the one that long labelled the now-closed nuclear power plant the property of Entergy Corporation. Last week, the companies announced the completion of the sale of the single-unit boiling water reactor, which operated for 42 years to NorthStar from Entergy, which has owned the plant since 2002. The announcement came on Jan. 11. The Vermont Public Utility Commission approved the...

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Voices

Shades of purple

By
Magdaline Volaitis
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 — Issue 587

I, for one, am sick of being shown everything in either red and blue. It's time for us to find our common ground so we can move forward in a way that is peaceful and community building. No matter how we voted, we are still each other's neighbors. We teach each other's children and put out each other's fires. We are the plumbers and doctors and nurses and mail carriers. We all need each other, and it's time to find...

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Arts

Write Action hosts potluck in Ashuelot

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 — Issue 826

Write Action members and the public are invited to attend the annual potluck picnic at the 32M Writers and Creatives Retreat in Ashuelot, New Hampshire, on Saturday, Aug. 16, from 1 to 4 p.m. Highlights of the day include networking, news about writers' work, an open reading, a sign-up for the 2025 Brattleboro Literary Festival, the announcement of Spotlight readers for 2025, and food and drink. 32M Retreat Center is an artist-run resource for poets, writers, and creatives that offers...

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