Truly unhinged: In the name of “the idea of coming together,” Randolph T. Holhut doubles down on division.
Everything despicable about the neoliberal “New Dems” emerges in this rant.
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...
Negro Brook. The name may have seemed banal in 1857 - the earliest mapped reference of the brook discovered so far. In 2020, however, for many community members, the word “negro” is offensive and a reminder of oppression. Evan Litwin and Alex Hazzard, two members of the Rename Negro Brook Alliance based in northern Vermont, want to change the brook's name to honor Susanna Toby, one of Townshend's early black residents who lived in the area during the 1800s [see...
Engaging in usual forms of commerce makes one believe that the pandemic is a thing of the past. I find it extremely frightening that more people are not wearing masks in public, because the science does tell us that not enough people have been vaccinated to provide the kind of herd immunity that we might need to protect all of us. Fifty-four percent of the U.S. population has received a first dose of vaccine, and 47 percent have received a...
GUILFORD-Guilford welcomes the return of a special holiday tradition, with the 60th anniversary of the Green River Carol Sing on Sunday, Dec. 17, at 5 p.m., at Green River Community Church. It's the first time in four years the Green River Village Preservation Trust (GRVPT) has been able to host the community event after the pandemic forced multiple years of cancellations. This community event started in the early 1960s to raise funds to restore, rebuild, and maintain the 185-year-old Green...
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