BROOKLINE — A measure of a man is how he treats others.
It's nice to see the attention paid to the students and the respect to the teacher. We need more of this! Go Bernie!
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...
Area legislators and local social service agencies recently shared their concerns about what new political leadership in both Montpelier and Washington might mean for continued funding of anti-hunger and anti-poverty programs. At the Nov. 17 meeting of the Hunger Council of the Windham Region at the Marlboro College Graduate Center, State Sen. Rebecca Balint, D-Windham, and state Reps. John Gannon, D-Wilmington; Emily Long, D-Newfane; Valerie Stuart, D-Brattleboro; and Molly Burke, P-Brattleboro talked about what can be done to keep the...
Tuesday, Nov. 8 will be a most significant day in the history of our nation. Though a midterm election, it nevertheless could determine which party controls Congress and, therefore, determine whether we continue as a democracy - or whether we succumb to the undisguised attempts on the part of the Republican Party to eliminate our democracy in all but name. The British paper The Guardian recently observed that the United States “is seeing a dizzying number of assaults on democracy.”
The Brattleboro Literary Festival will host a teen poetry, prose, and pizza slam at the Boys and Girls Club on Flat Street on Saturday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m.. Writers 18 and under are encouraged to sign up to read their original poems or prose. The winner will receive a cash prize of $100 and will be published online at Green Mountains Review. The runner-up will receive a $50 cash prize. Door prizes and a raffle will feature gift certificates...
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