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Voices

‘Newspaper’ bashes Republicans, hates America

By
Tim Grant
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 — Issue 745

I don't care that Dan DeWalt founded this "newspaper"; I'm sick of hearing from him. And I'm also sick of Nancy Braus, "who contributes often to these pages." (Too often!) These people hate Israel, and they hate America.

Then you print two full pages of "poetry" regarding the Israel-Hamas war. Actual poets must be rolling their eyes.

Elayne Clift is the worst columnist ever. All she does is bash Republicans every chance she gets. She calls Trump "morbidly obese." Isn't fat-shaming something liberals disapprove of? But when it comes to Trump, anything goes - right, Elayne? She also says he's an "obvious psychopath."

My hope for 2024 is that Trump will be re-elected, and The Commons will fire nasty woman Elayne Clift.

Tim Grant

Belchertown, Mass.

This letter to the editor was submitted to The Commons.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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News

A tireless foreign language teacher bids au revoir

By
Nancy A. Olson
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 — Issue 769

BRATTLEBORO-After a varied teaching career of 33 years, Alice Charkes, language teacher, is retiring on June 14. Since 2007 she has taught French to all grades at Green Street School. "It's important to understand the pulse of whom you're teaching," she said. "You have to know who the American kid is in the 2020s. My approach is to teach kids stuff that they can access and use, or that relates to them. It has to be interesting and immediate and...

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Voices

I’m fighting back. Will you?

By
Cindi Krug
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 — Issue 797

Cindi Krug works downtown at her family's store, Twice Upon a Time. "I wrote this a while ago but was nervous to [say] it aloud... now I think it's time," she writes. "I speak for myself and no one else." BRATTLEBORO-I write this with a very heavy heart. In one night, we found a stash of needles. The day before, I took a video of the trash and litter strewn around our private property, and that pile was not there.

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Arts

VTC’s ‘Cyrano’ at Retreat Farm on Sept. 3 and 4

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 — Issue 779

BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Theatre Company will present Cyrano at Retreat Farm on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 3 and 4, as part of their Children's Classics at the Farm series. Additional performances will be held at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6 and 7. All performances will begin at 6 p.m. This is rescheduled from the original August performance dates at Retreat Farm. Cyrano tells the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, France's greatest poet and swordsman.

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