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Voices

Brattleboro bond deserves townwide vote

The effect of the Town Meeting process is like waking up from a hangover. What did we do?
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 — Issue 184

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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News

An accidental grocer reflects on a cooperative journey

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 — Issue 311

The Brattleboro Food Co-op will mark two milestones this weekend. On Saturday, June 27, the customer-owned grocery will throw its 40th birthday bash starting with a community cook-out at 11 a.m., and live music until 6 p.m. The Co-op will also mark its second milestone at 1 p.m., with a ceremony to honor its General Manager Alex Gyori, who is retiring that day. Gyori and the store have grown in unison for almost 33 years. While the Co-op nurtured a...

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Voices

We cannot fund our way out of this chaos

By
Deborah Wright
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 — Issue 759

ROCKINGHAM-How can Rockingham, where I live, or any town in Vermont, continue to carry the unbearable and unsustainable burden of taxes here? How can our Legislature create and bring new taxes each year to the table off of which we all must eat? It is unconscionable. How can our local boards knowingly raise the tax rate year after year, hurting our elderly and our working poor still further? It is shameful. The answer is a lack of due diligence, a...

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Arts

Award-winning queer author launches debut poetry collection at Everyone’s Books

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 — Issue 351

Joshua R. Helms, winner of the Dzanc Poetry Collection Award, will read from his debut poetry collection, Machines Like Us, at Everyone's Books, 25 Elliot St., on Friday, April 8, at 6 p.m. The author will be available for a brief question-and-answer session after the reading. Helms, a Brattleboro resident, describes Machines Like Us as part love story, part dreamscape, and part exploration of self. “For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is dangerous, disorienting, self-erasing. The three struggle...

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