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Voices

Sketching on site

By
Candy Barr
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 — Issue 305

I love the sketch by Karen Becker of the chorus singing. How refreshing it is to have a drawing done on the site of local activities.

Would that The Commons have more illustrations like this one.

Voices

You are doing deer a service by killing them?

By
Christopher Sproat

PUTNEY-The story being told is what I regard as coming from the entitled position on...

Practicing active listening to people with whom we disagree

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Beloved Community

BRATTLEBORO-Thanksgiving will soon be here with the usual gatherings of people who are not likely...

Fall down, wake up

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Carolyn North

Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and...

BMH requires our support

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Prudence MacKinney

BRATTLEBORO-Like so many area residents, I've been concerned about news of the financial struggles Brattleboro...

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Welch tries to rally, reassure county Democrats

By
Joyce Marcel
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 — Issue 830

WESTMINSTER-"Vermont is what America should be," said U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, speaking on Aug. 30 in Westminster in a rolling green meadow under sunlit skies and towering elms and black maples. Approximately 75 Windham County Democrats met with the senator to eat barbecue and hear about the state of American democracy. The report was not good. But then, the Democrats expected that. "We all are sharing a horror that there's state-sponsored discrimination," Welch said. "We all are horrified that...

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Voices

Vermonters should check unclaimed property website

By
Jeanette White
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 — Issue 363

Every year, millions of unclaimed assets end up with the Vermont Office of the State Treasurer. Treasurer Beth Pearce makes a concerted effort to get those assets back to the rightful owners, citizens of Vermont. In 2015, $5.11 million was returned to 13,107 people. The assets could be forgotten bank accounts, uncashed paychecks, security deposits - almost anything. In addition to cash, other equities are also returned. These assets do not belong to the state, but the state is responsible...

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Arts

Award-winning Heath Quartet returns to Brattleboro

Wednesday, January 20, 2016 — Issue 340

The Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) welcomes the return of the award-winning Heath Quartet, as part of the BMC Chamber Music Series. The young British string quartet will appear Sunday, Jan. 31, at 4 p.m., at Centre Congregational Church on Main Street. The Quartet's Brattleboro performance will feature “String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5” by Franz Joseph Haydn, “String Quartet in F major, Op. 135” by Ludwig von Beethoven, and “String Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor,

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