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.
Emily Hallock is a patient care technician at Brattleboro Retreat. She originally posted this piece...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Free the drugs. I suggest the state of Vermont offers free drugs administered by...
PUTNEY-The Jim Jeffords ("I didn't leave the party, the party left me") solution: The U.S.
MIDDLEBURY-CCM Holland Mills' letter itself is filled with untrue statements and harmful rhetoric, which I,
BRATTLEBORO-Norma Hardy looks at the town as "a very, very busy hive," with the police chief noting that the Brattleboro Police Department (BPD) responded to 11,277 calls for services in 2023. That's up almost 8% since last year, according to the BPD's 2023 Annual Report. But embedded in the numbers are difficult stories of a community, and Hardy took The Commons through the numbers in a recent interview, offering some context about a still-understaffed police force adapting to providing public...
The West River Modified Union School District has proposed reorganizing elementary schools. Under one scenario, 3- and 4-year-olds would go to one school in Jamaica, kindergarteners through second-graders would go to Townshend, third- through fifth-graders would go to Newfane, and sixth through 12th grade would go to Leland & Gray in Townshend. Under a second scenario, Jamaica's school would be closed, but students from all of the towns would be separated into age-aligned school buildings. Under scenarios as described, close-aged...
A small village on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, Positano sits high upon the cliffs as it rolls into the Tyrrhenian Sea below. There, over the course of one week in 2018, Grammy-winning guitarist and producer Will Ackerman wrote the music for his new solo album, Positano Songs (Imaginary Road Music, 2022). He left there with 24 viable musical ideas. Ackerman has visited Positano for over three decades and says it remains “one of the most beautiful places on Earth.”
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