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Voices

Congratulations!

By
Elaine Flood
Wednesday, December 14, 2016 — Issue 387

Congratulations, Robbs!

You are some of the hardest working people I know, and you deserve every maple product sale you get from this opportunity and others!

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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Brattleboro fields funding requests

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 — Issue 544

Human-services funding, body cameras for police, Project CARE, and port-a-potties were four of the items reviewed by the Selectboard on Jan. 7 as the board prepares the fiscal year 2021 municipal budget. The board started building and reviewing the FY21 budget in November. While the bulk of work has been completed, board members had asked for additional explanations on a few requests for funding increases. Some of these increases comprise parts of departments' annual operating budgets. Some will appear as...

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Voices

Retreat LGBT+ unit shutdown increases risks for vulnerable patients

By
Rheba Reynolds
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 — Issue 544

Amidst a standoff between state officials and the Brattleboro Retreat over financing, the Retreat has been scrambling to make up for massive budget shortfalls. One of the heaviest casualties so far is the supposedly temporary closure of one of the seven inpatient units, Osgood 2, the only LGBT+ inpatient program in the country. The unit closed on Dec. 23, 2019 and as of today, Jan. 10, has not been reopened. Staff for the unit, admissions staff, and patients are left...

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Arts

Local journalist seeks support to finish book on Hallquist campaign

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 — Issue 520

A well-known Vermont journalist has launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at raising $45,000 - the funds necessary to complete a book chronicling the full behind-the-scenes story of Christine Hallquist's 2018 run as the first openly transgender major-party nominee for governor in the United States. The Democratic Party nominee, Hallquist, formerly the CEO of Vermont Electric Cooperative, lost to Republican incumbent Phil Scott. After being included in all campaign team calls and events from the beginning of the campaign in March...

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