DUMMERSTON — It's sad when you're a devoted employee for decades and when you leave it's no big thing to an employer.
People wonder why no one wants to work at one place for long.
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
WEST DUMMERSTON-After an exhaustive search, Samantha "Sam" Lucheck has been hired as the new executive director for Green Mountain Camp for Girls (GMC). Lucheck began her new position in December 2023, relocating from Wisconsin with her family this past February. Gina Stefanelli, a member of GMC's board of directors and head of the search and transition committee, says she is happy with the choice of Lucheck, who succeeds Billie Slade, who retired in December after 12 years. "We wanted to...
Like so many dazed parents the morning after the election, I tried to explain to my daughters what had happened while they slept. How our country had elected a racist, misogynist bully for a president. How there would not be a woman in the White House, as we'd naïvely toasted over chicken and quinoa the night before. How my feminist-mommy slogans like “Girls can do anything!” now sounded like feeble promises in a broken world of hate and fear. My...
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 181 Main Street, presents a gallery-wide solo exhibition, “Brian D. Cohen: A Retrospective,” with an opening and artist reception on Gallery Walk Friday, Nov. 4, from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibit will continue through Dec. 11 and features more than 100 etchings, engravings, and watercolors by printmaker, painter, and educator Cohen. Cohen graduated from Haverford College and completed his master's in painting at the University of Washington. In 1989, he founded Bridge Press and began collaborations...
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