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Voices

Amazing!

By
Els Dignitti
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 — Issue 195

RE: “Having his back” [News, March 13]:

An amazing write up about amazing people. Keep it coming!

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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Fitzgerald named new police chief

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 — Issue 270

Capt. Michael Fitzgerald is Brattleboro's new chief of police. The Selectboard announced Fitzgerald's promotion during its board meeting on Sept. 2. According to Selectboard Chair David Gartenstein, the board, a citizens committee, a town employee committee, and a committee of police officers recommended Fitzgerald to chief after an extensive two-month search. Fitzgerald took over as interim chief after Chief Eugene Wrinn retired in June. Gartenstein said that Fitzgerald stood out from a field of five top candidates. Fitzgerald possesses the...

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Voices

Brattleboro board urges governor to sign youth voting charter change bill

By
Brattleboro Selectboard
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 — Issue 652

The following is a letter sent to Gov. Phil Scott and copied to the newspaper.The Brattleboro Selectboard has written to ask for your signature on Brattleboro's Charter Change petition. Our years-long effort to advance the goals of the people of Brattleboro will die with the stroke of your pen should you veto the bill after all these years. In a Dillon's Rule state such as ours, few avenues are available to us to advance any change in our means and...

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Arts

Times reporter discusses Obama’s use of American power abroad in talk at Brattleboro’s First Baptist Church

Wednesday, November 21, 2012 — Issue 179

David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, will discuss the Obama administration's use of American power in a talk at First Baptist Church at 190 Main St. on Wednesday, Dec. 5. His talk, “Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and the Surprising Use of American Power,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays series and takes place at 7 p.m. Sanger's talk will offer a revealing look inside the current administration's aggressive use of innovative...

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