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Voices

Keeping perspective

By
Keri Roberts
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 — Issue 306

WEST BRATTLEBORO — Beautifully written! It's easy to lose sight of the ones we do help when we focus our hearts on the ones we can't.

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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A lifetime helping animals

By
Fran Lynggaard Hansen
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 — Issue 761

DUMMERSTON-Clyde Johnson, best known as a veterinarian who retired from the Vermont–New Hampshire Veterinary Clinic, says that, although he was born in Pennsylvania, he came into the world mysteriously as a Vermonter. When asked how he came to live in the state, he shows his understated sense of humor by responding in sensible Vermont fashion. "In a car," he says. The Dummerston Historical Society has invited Johnson to speak on Sunday, April 21, at 2 p.m. about his years practicing...

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Voices

Utterly inhumane and grossly misogynistic

By
Elayne Clift
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 — Issue 435

In the late 1970s, as I was beginning my career in women's health, one of the first feminist icons I met was a flamboyant, passionate, and deeply committed woman named Perdita Huston. She had made her mark internationally working as a journalist and a Peace Corps professional, but what put her on the feminist map was her 1979 book Third World Women Speak Out. Huston's book was remarkable because she was one of the first people to give women in...

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Arts

‘A unique and beautiful part of my upbringing’

By
Annie Landenberger
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 — Issue 808

PUTNEY-Noam "Nani" Vazana, one of the few musician/songwriters in the world who writes and composes in the endangered Ladino language, has launched a tour that's landing her in venues large and small around North America and Europe. One of her stops will be Putney, as Next Stage Arts hosts her for a performance this Friday. BBC Radio 3 hails Vazana's as a powerful and soulful voice that "transports you from ancient markets to modern jazz clubs in one breath." Add...

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