BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
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BRATTLEBORO-Theresa Glabach, Girls on the Run Vermont board member, coaches the program at Putney Central School alongside physical education teacher Maddie Harlow. Glabach spoke with The Commons recently. Here is an excerpt from the conversation: Victoria Chertok: What was it about GOTRVT that drew you in initially? Theresa Glabach: I first came to Girls on the Run as a SoleMate [described on the GOTR website as a "community made up of passionate people raising money for Girls on the Run"].
As with many political discussions, things are somewhat different in Brattleboro. While voter suppression and intimidation are realities in many places, we don't have to worry about those things here. Nonetheless, we remain directly affected by elections that happen in other communities and other states. Our future is dependent on their elections and elected officials. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in a presidential election, where a few thousand votes in another state can determine the fate of our...
U.S. sanctions have blocked the Venezuelan people from obtaining food and medicine. These sanctions resulted in at least 40,000 deaths between mid-2017 and the end of 2018, according to a study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research - and that was prior to the most severe sanctions, announced in January 2019. What exactly is happening in Venezuela? What can be done? Those questions will be addressed during the Vermont premiere of a new documentary film, Venezuelans Under Siege,
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