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...
BRATTLEBORO-The 51st annual "By the People: Brattleboro Goes Fourth" Independence Day celebration is set for Thursday, July 4, with a morning parade downtown and an afternoon and evening program of family activities and fireworks at Living Memorial Park. Marching units - including the local American Legion and Brattleboro Union High School bands, veterans, and civic and youth groups - will kick off the festivities at 10 a.m. with a parade from Flat Street to Main Street to the town Common.
Let me tell you about the company I work for, and the problems we are solving. The world and national news is full of oil spills, natural gas plant explosions, global warming and air pollution. Every day, I and my company make low-carbon, emissions-free electricity, which is a partial solution to all four of those pressing problems. Here in Vermont, the news is full of stagnant unemployment and a state government that doesn't have enough money to protect its many...
British playwright Sir David Hare's “The Breath of Life” is this week's Saturday Staged Reading at the Actors Theatre Playhouse, featuring Terri Storti and Shoshana Rihn. Performances are Sept. 7 and 14, at 7:30 p.m. Burt Tepfer directs. Staged readings, part of the Actors Theatre Playhouse's programming for many seasons, enables actors to sit at at a table and fully perform with script in hand. These aren't concert readings, but rather are fully realized performances - sans scenery and staging.
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