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Voices

Well-crafted column

By
Renee Vondle
Wednesday, August 25, 2021 — Issue 627

Powerful. Thank you for all the energy you expended to craft this article. Well done.

Voices

With the right support, refugees in rural Vermont can thrive

By
Pablo Bose and Thomas Huddleston

Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...

Representative Town Meeting works for a town the size of Brattleboro

By
Rebecca Bartlett

BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...

The wonder of paradox

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Editing words about war, and our great divide

By
Jeff Potter

Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...

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News

Home-sharing eyed as part of solution to housing crunch

By
Ellen Pratt
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 — Issue 828

HomeShare Vermont, a nonprofit that connects people with extra space in their homes to those in need of affordable housing, is bringing its services to Windham and Windsor counties. With an acute need for all types of housing in the state, HomeShare Vermont's model will be another "tool in the housing toolbox for this region," said Connor Timmons, HomeShare's executive director. Timmons presented the matchmaking service at a recent meeting of the Housing Coalition of Southeastern Vermont, a cross-sector planning...

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Voices

Farcical framing of ethnic cleansing

By
Holland Mills
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 — Issue 789

BRATTLEBORO-The Commons' "difficult conversation" op-ed notes that "several hundred thousand" innocents were displaced. Indeed, that number was forced from their homes and into camps - back in 1948. In the ensuing decades, by waging war Israeli land bloated in size and another few hundred thousand were uprooted. Currently, three million live under military occupation in the West Bank. In the past year well over two million Gazans were dispossessed by violence; months ago The Lancet stated roughly a tenth were...

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Arts

Show of a lifetime

By
Arlene Distler
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 — Issue 614

On Saturday, May 29, a new show - a particularly important one - goes up at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts. “Jackie Abrams: 45 Years of Making” brings together basketry from the Brattleboro artist's many series over her lifetime, from the traditional basketry of her early years to works in her “Precarious Shelters” series - more symbols of those shapes that hold our lives, as baskets hold our objects. Over the past 45 years, Abrams has collaborated with glass artist Josh Bernbaum...

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