Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
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Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
A planned display of the Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall in September at Moore Field on Putney Road has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The wall will instead come to town beginning Sept. 16, 2021. In a letter to The Commons, Len Derby, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Chapter 843, said he was making the announcement “with great sadness.” The local VVA chapter started doing its planning and fundraising last fall to bring the wall to...
Between 2000 and 2015, depression among Americans aged 12-17 rose four times faster than among anyone else in the population, according to a study from Columbia University. Between 2009 and 2015, attempted suicides, drug overdoses, cutting, and other types of self-injury have increased substantially in U.S. girls, with the sharpest increase among those aged 10 to 14. That rate nearly tripled from 2009 to 2015, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. In Vermont, calls to the state's Child...
“Localvore” is the name of the game in southern Windham County, especially in the first weekend of June. While Strolling of the Heifers brings local farms and food to the fore in Brattleboro, a few minutes south, in Guilford, is local theater. Yes, complete with a local writer and local talent on a local stage. Guilford Center Stage launches its second season at the Broad Brook Grange on June 3-5 with two original one-act plays written and directed by local...
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