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Voices

Please get your facts straight

By
Charlie Weiss
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 — Issue 285

Where did FairPoint ever say that it would cut pay by one-third?

What a dumb letter. Get the facts straight before writing, please.

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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Windham Central names new leader from within

By
Virginia Ray
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 — Issue 689

Robert “Bob” Thibault has been named Superintendent of the Windham Central Supervisory Union (WCSU). Thibault, 51, will replace William Anton, who has been in the post since 2015 and is moving on to other things. “Well, for the first time in a quarter century, my wife and I get to make some decisions about what we want to do in life,” Anton said about his future. “Our offspring are grown, independent, and out of the house, living in Boston (Colette,

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Voices

Hundreds chip in to help artist rebuild studio

By
Jim Giddings
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 — Issue 380

A heartfelt thank-you to the hundreds of people who have supported me and contributed to my fire fund and recovery after my artist studio and decades of paintings suddenly burned to the ground. There are too many individuals to list here - I'll write to them personally - but groups and businesses deserve special mention as well. Brattleboro-West Arts essentially insisted I step aside as members planned, promoted, organized, and ran a magnificent, successful benefit auction. BWA members and friends...

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Arts

Film screening will highlight Domino Toppling Extravaganza

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 — Issue 632

Dominoes will dominate downtown for one weekend this fall, with two events celebrating the art and science of domino toppling: a film screening and the 14th annual Domino Toppling Extravaganza. Domino-toppling sensation Lily Hevesh will attend the screening of the documentary film Lily Topples the World, about her rise as an internationally recognized domino artist, on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre. Directed by Jeremy Workman, the film won the Grand Jury Award for documentary feature...

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