Excellent article, thanks! Do you think Hillary Clinton asked Patrick Leahy to be vice president or secretary of state?
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...
Gretchen Havreluk, Wilmington's Economic & Community Development Consultant, was late to a June 28 meeting on broadband internet access with U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., in Brattleboro. Why? Havreluk said she was in her office at her home in Jacksonville, trying to submit a grant application for Wilmington to the Vermont Agency of Transportation. She said she could not download the information because her internet connection was too slow. That little vignette illustrated the frustration that many Vermonters still experience...
Sandy Golden takes me to task for not practicing what I preach. While appreciating Ms. Golden's reminder of the importance of walking the talk, a reminder I can always use, I would also argue that my essay is not a good example of my failure to do so. In contrast to my insistence that a “functioning democracy is all about valuing life, valuing each other,” Ms. Golden maintains that I contradict myself when I write that the Republican Party, and...
Mile Twelve, winners of the 2017 International Bluegrass Music Association's Momentum Award for Newcomer Band with Significant Contribution to Bluegrass Music, will perform in Bellows Falls on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 7:30 p.m., at Immanuel Episcopal Church, the stone church on the hill, 20 Church St. In a news release, guitarist/vocalist Evan Murphy said of the five-piece band's newest album, City on a Hill, “original bluegrass music, written and played by young people, is very much alive.” “I hope people...
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