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Voices

Appreciates a free press

By
Mark Sniatkowski
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 — Issue 393

DOVER — Your paper is excellent - for starting fires.

Thank you for being free.

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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A celebration of community in food, song, and spirit

By
Rev. Lise Sparrow
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 — Issue 678

More than 300 people began streaming onto the Retreat Farm and into a big white tent on Aug. 13 as Sam Waymon - brother to the late musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone - and two backup vocalists set the upbeat rhythms for the third annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner, with guests joining in to sing together. Cliff Wood, a retired college president and a member of the Windham County Vermont NAACP leadership team, had organized the organization's members...

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Voices

Formula for quality staff

By
Ira Weiner
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 — Issue 466

Treat staff right, and they will stay; then, you will attract more quality staff. The hospital cannot function without dedicated, quality nursing staff. Best of luck, clinical staff.

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Arts

Literary Cocktail Hour saddles up for a conversation with KT Sparks

Wednesday, July 7, 2021 — Issue 620

On Friday, July 9, at 5 p.m., the Brattleboro Literary Fest continues its 20th anniversary year with a home-on-the-range trip to Elko, Nevada via KT Sparks' new book, Four Dead Horses. Sparks will participate in a free online conversation with local writer Stephanie Greene. On May 1, 1982, 18-year-old Martin Oliphant watches a horse drown off the shore of Lake Michigan - the first of (almost) four equine corpses marking the trail that will lead Martin out of the small-minded...

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