BRATTLEBORO — A ban on sale of assault weapons would be good.
A ban on sale of votes by Congress would be better.
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
By the end of the year, state officials expect to sign a lease with the town to rent approximately 10,000 square feet of the municipal building at 230 Main St. State Commissioner of Buildings and Services Christopher Cole submitted a letter of intent, dated Oct. 5, with some details on the proposed lease agreement. In the letter, Cole wrote, “It is the State's intent to formalize a lease within 45 days of the signing of this Letter of Intent.” The...
Legalizing recreational marijuana will have an outsize impact on Vermont if 3.2 million nonresident users living conveniently within 200 miles in states where it remains illegal are added to 80,000 resident users - five marijuana users per Vermonter - the RAND Corporation Drug Policy Research Center report commissioned by our legislators warns us. State by state, legalizing recreational marijuana is creating a national marijuana industry like the tobacco industry where, at least initially, there may be a niche market for...
Artist Bobby DiTrani opens his second solo show at Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main St., on Friday, July 7, during Gallery Walk. According to the gallery, DiTrani's “masterly oil paintings evoke an atmosphere balanced precariously between serene beauty and cataclysmic chaos.” DiTrani is presenting new and past works the gallery says “combine his skill and talent with figures and faces, smokey forests and far away mountains, and how they might shine in a sunset or the glow of a...
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