BRATTLEBORO — Shut off air conditioning in all government offices in the 10 most offending countries*.
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. He adds: "I'm proud that in Windham...
What's it like to make history? “A moment that will stay with me for the rest of my life was waking up the morning after the election, on very little sleep, and hearing my wife say, 'Good morning, Congresswoman,'” Vermont's new Democratic U.S. representative-elect, Rebecca A. “Becca” Balint, 54, said shortly after the election. Weeks later, the enormity of what she's accomplished is still sinking in. “I couldn't feel it on Election Night,” she said. “I honestly felt so out...
Recently, The Commons has published several stories about our community's robust welcoming of refugees and asylum seekers. Thank you! Unfortunately, if the “asylum transit ban” currently proposed by the Biden administration had been in force for the past five years, fewer than a quarter of the asylum seekers currently supported by the Community Asylum Seekers Project (CASP) in southern Vermont today would be here. They would likely be stuck in one of the countries they passed through on their way...
Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, presents Walter Parks and Rob Curto's “Swampalachian Trail” on Friday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. Parks, longtime guitarist sideman to Woodstock legend Richie Havens, joins accordionist extraordinaire Rob Curto in presenting their self-described “Swampalachian” acoustic and roots style - a blend of reels, hollers, spirituals, and blues. A news release describes their project as reimagining the historic soundtrack to the building of America, “reminding us all, regardless of political and cultural diversity, that whereas...
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