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Voices

Bravo!

By
Grace Peterson
Wednesday, July 23, 2014 — Issue 264

Isn't Martha M Moravec's writing awesome? Martha and I have been online friends for the past few years, and I'm excited to see her book become a reality.

Bravo!

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

Farms slammed with loss from mid-May frost

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 — Issue 718

Local growers and buyers are assessing the damage from a late-spring frost across Vermont that severely damaged thousands of acres of crops. According to the U.S. National Weather Service in Burlington, many below-freezing temperatures were recorded overnight May 17 into the early morning hours of May 18. “We're still grappling, but it was evident that there was significant damage right away,” said Simon Renault, general manager of Scott Farm in Dummerston.“We have a weather station in the orchard and saw...

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Voices

Anti-gun supporters like Braden in the same class as pedophiles

By
Jerome Cook
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 — Issue 380

GunSense VT Executive Director Ann Braden will never be a true Vermonter. She is just like Hillary Clinton - a pure liar. Braden will do anything possible to make her silly little fears trump our Vermont and U.S. Constitutional rights. I put all anti-gun supporters like Braden and her supporters in the same class as pedophiles: the lowest of the low. If Ann Braden and her followers don't like Vermont gun laws, they should move to states that have strict...

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Arts

BMAC hosts concert with UMass Percussion Group

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 — Issue 294

The UMass Percussion Group presents a program of contemporary music for percussion ensemble at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. Other than J.S. Bach's “Lute Suite in E Minor,” an excerpt of which will be performed on marimba, the oldest work on the program is composer Steve Reich's “Drumming” from 1971. Reich was heralded by The New Yorker as “the most original musical thinker of our time.” Other works to be performed...

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