BRATTLEBORO — I have come to view Donald Trump simply as “The Abscess.”
Jason Cooper, a real estate investor, developer, and property manager, has served as a steering...
Jessica Dolan, Ph.D. (District 8) is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member. BRATTLEBORO-Our predecessors were...
Emilie Kornheiser, Ian Goodnow, and Mollie Burke represent Brattleboro in the Vermont House of Representatives.
SPRINGFIELD-On April 16, during his inaugural speech as secretary of health and human services, Robert...
Fired Brattleboro Union High School Principal Steven Perrin has filed a civil lawsuit against the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU), the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD), and its board members. A March 21 filing names the two entities as well as board members at the time of Perrin's firing and his subsequent hearing to appeal that action. Those defendants are Anne Beckman, Lana Dever, Michelle Luetjen Green, Emily Murphy Kaur, Tim Maciel, Robin Morgan, Shaun Murphy, Deborah Stanford, and Kelly...
You may have seen the Solidarity Friday demonstrations on the Pliny Park corner that began last summer and continued into the fall. In-person actions were paused due to Covid restrictions, but we continued meeting (via Zoom), learning about our shared concerns, and building our coalition. In the ongoing work to gain more participation in and deepen the understanding of our actions, the involved organizations wanted to explain our purpose for Solidarity Fridays in preparation for starting again. Four Brattleboro-based organizations...
The Commons spoke by phone recently with Jack Betzen of the Wolfman Jack band, which will perform at the Stone Church on Saturday, Dec. 3 [story, this issue]. In our conversation, Betzen discussed the band's lead guitar player and dear friend Jason Ferguson, who died suddenly at age 56 at his home in Willow, New York on Nov. 14. In addition to making music with Wolfman Jack, Ferguson played lead guitar, bass, and vocals with other bands, including Rainbow Full...
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