Your support powers every story we tell. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
Your support powers every story we tell. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
I have been a Twelve Tribes member for 25 years. I am a wife and mother, employing many gifts and skills and learning others, as I continue in this life.
I noticed that the Voices section of The Commons was created as a forum for biased expressions of opinion rather than news. While it may be interesting to the readers, as if we could keep these issues in the realm of a slightly distant debate (just the beginning of a “salvo” was editor Jeff Potter's term), the essay Clara Rose Thornton wrote was highly personal. So I decided to write a personal response to Ms. Thornton's opinion about her experience at the Basin Farm.
First of all, we insist that the editor remove the references to a Web site that is not our Web site at all. We of the Twelve Tribes did not publish the material from that teaching Web site,” whether quoted in Ms. Thornton's article or the reference put in an adjacent box by the editor of The Commons. Our Web site is www.twelvetribes.com, which contains our published writings about many topics.
Before publishing in a newspaper, the editor is responsible to make sure that all sources are verifiable and reputable. A keystone in Ms. Thornton's article is a reference to a Web site that has no author and no contact information, and that has a deliberately concealed identity in its domain record. We insist that this reference be removed.
The sun is shining on this last Saturday in May, as just over 100 people scramble for a spot on the grass bordering the Marlboro College Graduate Center parking lot downtown. Lack of outdoor seating is one of the few indicators that the Joomla!Day New England is a homegrown...
Hefeweizens are wheat beers bottled with yeast (hefe is German for yeast), which clouds things up in the glass, but makes for a delightfully refreshing warm weather beverage. Why, I pondered, did no one think to produce a Heiferweizen beer for Brattleboro's grand (and becoming ever-grander) Strolling of the...
Once again the Twelve Tribes Communities are in the news. For 25 years now we have honored June 22 as the day that the Community in Island Pond and its 112 children got delivered from the hands of the state in 1984 (yes, it really was “1984”) by Judge Frank Mahady because he followed the Constitution. This year I have something more to say than simple appreciation for what Frank Mahady did. I want to share with you something that...
A new trash contractor will pick up trash and recycling, with no change to the routes or to the days town households are currently served, according to a press release issued from the office of Town Manager Barbara Sondag. Beginning Wednesday, July 1, Triple T will provide the trash and recycle pickup for residents, taking over duties from Waste Management. "While we expect no interruption of service, the time of individual collection may be different from current service time," the...
