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Voices

Thanks for Maggie Lake memoriam

By
Hayden Lake
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 — Issue 294

PUTNEY — Thank you, Joyce Marcel, for this wonderfully written and accurate tribute to my mother.

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

Out of sight

By
MacLean Gander
Wednesday, May 15, 2019 — Issue 510

The eviction last week by police in Hinsdale, N.H. of three homeless campers from an island in the Connecticut River casts a spotlight on the question of what homeless people in the region do once the seasonal overnight shelter closes in April. Hinsdale Police Chief Todd A. Faulkner told The Commons that the property, owned by the state of New Hampshire, had been posted to prohibit camping last year but that the signs had been ripped down. He said that...

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Voices

When online community discussion becomes a skewed feedback loop

By
Angela Earle Gray
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 — Issue 812

BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be a great tool for engagement, it also opens the door for something more subtle and more troubling. A Town Meeting representative has been posting in local Facebook groups, asking questions that resemble formal outreach: What does the community think about this issue? Should the town consider doing that? On the surface, it seems like an official request, made by a holder of elected office with...

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Arts

Next Stage hosts Duvekot, Moonshine on Dec. 14

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 — Issue 794

PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of contemporary folk music with Antje Duvekot and Goodnight Moonshine (Molly Venter and Eben Pariser) on Saturday, Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill. Duvekot is a German-born, American-raised singer-songwriter whose songs have been critically praised for their "hard-won wisdom, dark-eyed realism, and street-smart romanticism." Her bi-cultural upbringing and relative newness to English have "helped shape her unique way with a song, giving her a startlingly original...

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