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Voices

Smile!

By
Tim Grant
Wednesday, October 20, 2021 — Issue 635

After reading Pat Sheehan's letter regarding her uterus and my testicles, here's my response to Pat and all the other pro-aborts out there: Smile! Your moms chose life!

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

Bracing for impact

By
Joyce Marcel
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 — Issue 822

BRATTLEBORO-Much of Windham County depends for its health care services on Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH), which has been weathering what already was a financial crisis. And then everything changed on July 3, when Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill, which President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, may cause some 45,000 people in Vermont to lose their health insurance over the next several years, according to initial estimates from the Vermont Agency of Human...

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Voices

Can we make a good place to live even better?

By
Richard Davis
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 — Issue 766

Richard Davis, a retired registered nurse, was elected in March to a one-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard, where he serves as clerk. He speaks only for himself, and his words here do not express any official statement by the board. BRATTLEBORO-I have been a member of the Brattleboro Selectboard only for a very short time, and I still have more questions than answers about how our little New England town of 12,000 operates. I suspect that most people pay...

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Arts

‘Halloween is Rocky Horror season’

By
Annie Landenberger
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 — Issue 787

BELLOWS FALLS-Having started its zany, twisted life locally in Brattleboro in April, The Ones from the Vaults, a Vermont-style Rocky Horror Picture Show, is now rebooting at the Bellows Falls Opera House. Directed and managed by Stephanie Abrams of Kinetic Theory Theatre, a company of 12 will offer this monthly event - complete with shadow cast and all its quirky culture - at least until the end of the year. Abrams said in a recent interview with The Commons that...

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