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Voices

Roots: one part of a larger whole

By
Ray Massucco
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

BELLOWS FALLS — Bellows Falls has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to art and culture, and I'm proud to be a small part of that.

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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Rain, heavy at times, into Friday

By
Dave Hayes
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 — Issue 424

Good day to you! While all eyes remain firmly on Hurricane Irma for impacts to the East Coast of the United States, we have some rainy weather to slog through before we break out into a nicer weekend and early-next-week period. Speaking of Irma, it's highly unlikely we will have a direct impact here in southern Vermont. However, by the middle of next week or so, some remnant rain and wind is possible up in these parts. For now, it's...

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Voices

In Putney, farm-to-school program is taking root

By
Alice Laughlin
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 — Issue 347

Our town celebrates its passage of a school budget that recognizes the educational benefit of relationships between culture, local economy, health, hunger, food, and our environment. A budget that is 0.4 percent higher than the spending for the current year supports project-based learning in our school meal program and guarantees that all children will have access to healthy, tasty food during the school day without stigma. We recognize that hungry children do not have the same opportunities to reach their...

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Arts

Tickets are on sale for Main Street Arts’ production of ‘Chicago’

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 — Issue 496

The cast is set, rehearsals are going full tilt, and tickets are on sale for Main Street Arts' production of Chicago, which opens Thursday, Mar. 28, at the Bellows Falls Opera House for a two-weekend run. The cast of the Jazz-age musical set in the Windy City's Cook County jail includes Kyla White as the imprisoned Roxie Hart and Izzy Serebrov as the smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn, who works for Roxie's release by making the tabloids sympathetic to her plight.

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