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...
Balancing the town budget is rarely a cake walk for any municipality. And building Brattleboro's budget for fiscal year 2015 may require the Selectboard to make tough decisions. The board held an early-morning budget meeting with the interim town manager and department heads in the Hanna Cosman Meeting Room of the Municipal Center on Nov. 25 to begin to solve the puzzle of how to fund the municipal operating and capital budgets while keeping property taxes at a manageable level.
It's the time of year again when the Windham County Heat Fund reminds all of the generous people in the county that our less fortunate friends and neighbors will need your help once again as we approach another heating season. The Windham County Heat Fund was created in 2005 by Richard Davis and me to help people in Windham County who were not able to buy enough heating fuel to make it through that winter. In 2010, the Heat Fund...
The beautiful service of Choral Evensong will be sung at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28, at St. Michael's Episcopal Church. The 24-voice choir, directed by Susan Dedell, will sing settings of the Evensong Canticles by Everett Titcomb, with additional liturgical music by Vaughn Williams. Those in attendance will be invited to sing a variety of evening songs and chants, which are woven throughout the service. The little-known music of Everett Titcomb (1885-1968) occupies a unique niche in American sacred...
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