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Voices

Cheese truism

By
Laura Austan
Wednesday, June 12, 2013 — Issue 207

BRATTLEBORO — RE: “The artisan-cheese revolution” [Food & Drink, June 5]:

There is little in life that can't be helped by cheese.

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

Tearing down, building up

By
Randolph T. Holhut and Jeff Potter
Wednesday, December 25, 2013 — Issue 234

It was a gray and very cold Saturday morning, but it wasn't cold enough to deter a dozen people who were curious about the Interstate 91 Bridge Project. Caleb Linn, the project manager for PCL, the lead contractor that's building the new bridge that will carry traffic over the West River, led a brief trail walk on Dec. 14. The walk offered area residents a glimpse at how much work has been done so far - and how more there...

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Voices

Charter change will only exacerbate the problems with the local rental market

By
Sally Fegley
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 — Issue 702

Brattleboro has thousands of rental housing units and hundreds of housing providers. The providers who bought their units as investments are overwhelmingly local people — middle-class people — who generally own one, two, four, maybe six, units in a building or two. They often depend on the rents as their means of livelihood or as supplements to their Social Security. The recent publicity about the Westbrook apartment complex, purchased by a Boston-based corporation, in West Brattleboro is an anomaly. While...

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Arts

Work continues on Next Stage renovations

By
Randolph T. Holhut and Jeff Potter
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 — Issue 323

Next Stage Arts Project is in the midst of a $1.5 million renovation project, transforming the former United Church of Putney into a modern, fully-accessible performing arts center. The renovations got a boost last week when the nonprofit was selected as one of 27 projects around Vermont to receive Downtown and Village Tax Center tax credits amounting to nearly $24,000. The tax credits, administered by the state's Downtown Program, targets state funding to support efficient use of land and resources...

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