BRATTLEBORO-The only medical cannabis dispensary in the region, CeresMed South on Putney Road, closed its...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Department of Labor has received notice that C&S Wholesale Grocers is planning layoffs...
BRATTLEBORO-In the hope that students will eat more nutritionally and feel more healthy, the Windham...
BRATTLEBORO-After serving two years of her three-year term on the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD)
The Vermont Press Association (VPA) presented The Commons with first prize in the “Best of Vermont - General Excellence” category for the non-daily division at the association's annual awards luncheon on May 31 at the Capital Plaza Hotel. Commons News Editor Randolph T. Holhut also won two awards in the non-daily division: second place for best local news story and third place for best editorial. Kevin O'Connor, a reporter for the Rutland Herald with local roots whose beat includes his...
Of the many sentiments offered to me in recent weeks, these words, spoken by a recently released prison inmate with tears in his eyes, are ones I don't think I'll ever forget. “I been there, brother. I'm feelin' it with ya.” The Squirrel Hill community of Pittsburgh (the actual neighborhood of Mister Rogers) has always been a tightly knit set of neighborhoods where, it seems, everybody is connected in some way to everybody else. Within the community, individual synagogues constitute...
There are stories throughout American history of early settlers' children being abducted and raised among Native tribes for the rest of their lives. However, some stories are less well-known than others. Stuart Strothman's recently published historical novel Sackett tells a lesser-known story of Elizabeth Sackett, a Puritan child abducted at age 5 from Westfield, Mass., and raised among Abenaki Indians. She later married an Abenaki, and their son - known as Sackett - grew up to play a significant role...
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