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Voices

Sooooo lucky

By
Kelly Salasin
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 — Issue 308

MARLBORO — Thank you, Amy Comerchero! We've been sooooo lucky.

Enjoy a good rest, and then we'll look forward to what's next for you - and our tummies.

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

Proposed shakeup of nuclear panel irks senator

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, February 8, 2017 — Issue 394

A planned reshuffling of the Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel could bolster Windham County's representation. But the changes also would remove a longtime state lawmaker - Sen. Mark MacDonald, D-Orange - from the panel. And MacDonald, a sometimes-gruff critic of Vermont Yankee, is objecting to the idea that the advisory group needs a different legislative perspective. While acknowledging that the change is “not personal,” MacDonald added: “I'm the outsider. They want someone more provincial.” Panel Chairwoman Kate O'Connor responded...

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Voices

‘Nothing kissy, Jerry’

By
Jerry Goldberg
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 — Issue 526

I'm sad today because I just heard that Valerie Harper has passed. And I'm glad, because for a while I got to know her a little. Among the highlights of my almost 24-year CBS career was my assignment to sell shows produced by Mary Tyler Moore's company, MTM Enterprises, to audiences and advertisers. On more than one occasion, more than one person actually compared me to Mary Richards, Moore's character on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. (Go figure - but...

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Arts

Under the Maple presents a house concert with fiddler Lisa Gutkin

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 — Issue 807

BRATTLEBORO-Under the Maple presents fiddler and singer-songwriter Lisa Gutkin in a house concert on Sunday, March 23, at 3 p.m. "Gutkin has crafted a courageously varied artistic career by bringing an instantly relatable style to audiences through her theater, music, and storytelling," organizers wrote in a news release. "A masterful Grammy Award-winning violinist, [...] actor, and composer, Lisa has an uncanny way of taking those audiences with her wherever she goes." Recognized for her work with the Jewish roots band,

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