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...
The Marlboro College Board of Trustees last week announced the sale of the campus to Democracy Builders, an educational nonprofit. The ink is still drying on Democracy Builders' plans for the property. Still, it appears that the Marlboro College campus will welcome students in September. Democracy Builders' founder Seth Andrew is in the process of launching Degrees of Freedom, a low-residency, two-year degree program. Students would split their time between on-campus programing, paid apprenticeships, and online classes. The program still...
To the children of this Earth, Act as if your lives depend on it, because they do. Act as if your house in on fire, because it is. Act as if the glaciers are melting, because they are. This Friday, Sept. 20, we will be striking from school, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Pliny Park in Brattleboro. Join us, because your lives depend on it, because your house is on fire, because the glaciers are melting. Because if you...
Considered by many to be the greatest piece of unaccompanied choral music ever written, the “All Night Vigil” of Rachmaninoff will be performed by the Brattleboro Concert Choir, under the direction of artistic director Susan Dedell, on Saturday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday afternoon, May 15, at 4 p.m. While closer to an hour than to “all night,” the Concert Choir nevertheless invites audiences to experience the power of Rachmaninoff's incredible music. In the 26 years Susan...
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