Membership fees for Brattleboro Time Trade are $60 per year. The wrong amount was reported in the May 14 edition of The Commons.
BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced...
BRATTLEBORO-Greg Lesch. the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, died Feb. 19,
Many people in Windham County look on in frustration as they watch the police arrest...
ROCKINGHAM-The town of Rockingham recently announced that the Proposed Amendments to the town's Zoning and...
Cooperman Company 1007 Route 121, North Westminster (Bellows Falls, VT 05101) 802-463-9750 • Website: cooperman.com; historylives.com • Facebook: Cooperman Rope Drums (facebook.com/cooperman.drums); Cooperman Frame Drums (facebook.com/cooperman.drum) • Twitter: twitter.com/coopermandrum • YouTube: youtube.com/user/CoopermanVt • Founded: 1961 • Corporate structure: Incorporated in Vermont as a foreign profit corporation. (The company was headquartered in Connecticut in 1987, the year of incorporation.) • Employees: 12–15 • Products/services: Musical instruments (rope tension drums, hand drums, drumsticks, fifes, banjo rims, parts). Also, “we manufacture a line...
The Brattleboro Selectboard recently voted 3–2 to hold this year's Annual Representative Town Meeting (RTM) completely in person, with no remote option. And with that, a large blow in a line of blows was dealt to the accessibility and diversification of our town's government, bolstering an increasingly regressive status quo. Town meetings in Vermont are sacrosanct and celebrated instruments of government for the people, by the people. They are “democracy in action,” opportunities for the average citizen to speak up...
Trumpeter Marquis Hill will appear at the Vermont Jazz Center on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m., with his group, the Blacktet, which also features Joel Ross on vibraphone, James Francies on piano, Harish Raghavan on acoustic bass, and Jonathan Pinson on the drums. Hill emerged into the jazz limelight in 2014 after earning the prestigious top prize at the International Thelonious Monk Competition. Leading up to this, his success was gradual and patiently earned - the result of a...
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