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...
Vermont officials are hopeful that more of the state's population will be getting vaccinated against COVID-19 in the coming weeks. According to the Vermont Department of Health's data dashboard at healthvermont.gov/covid-19/vaccine/covid-19-vaccine-dashboard, about 26,600 Vermonters had received either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as of Jan. 12, with 1,430 doses administered in Windham County as of Jan. 7. In a Jan. 8 news briefing in Montpelier, Agency of Human Services Secretary Mike Smith said Vermont is the second fastest state...
On May 31, more than 500 union members and allies picketed the GOP fundraiser in Burlington which featured extremist union-buster Scott Walker and Vermont Republican Governor Phil Scott. The picket was organized by AFSCME-VT, IBEW Local 300, the Vermont Building and Construction Trade Council, and dozens of other unions and pro-labor community/political organizations. Labor appreciates the support received from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who reached out to supporters the previous day to express his backing of the picket and to...
Part of the mission of Juno Orchestra, Vermont's newest chamber orchestra, is to present soloists who were raised in the region around Brattleboro. “One of Juno's clearest goals is a commitment to featuring soloists at work in the musical world, but who grew up and received formative training in this area,” says Zon Eastes, Juno's founder and music director. For the concert opening its second season, Juno will feature oboist and Vermonter Jennifer Slowik, who received her earliest musical training...
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