MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't...
BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a...
BRATTLEBORO-Great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires is also a great, great fundraiser. The 94-year-old Guilford resident arrived at...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is seeking $4 million in expense reductions and new revenue in the...
Seth Andrew, founder of Democracy Builders and the new Degrees of Freedom at the soon-to-be former Marlboro College campus, explained the importance of civil lives and middle-class lifestyles. Andrew said his family instilled in him an interest in public life, civic engagement, and public policy. His family's dinner table conversations often centered on public issues. When Andrew reached college, he realized not all people felt obligated to participate in their democracy. This awakened in him the desire to focus on...
I say to myself, “Don't take the bait.” But when a man writes to The Commons that “[v]ictims of rape and incest have available to them the ability to prevent pregnancy” and therefore, implies that it is a woman's fault should she become pregnant during rape or incest ... aargh. Imagine, Kenneth Scipione, that a woman you love is the victim of rape. The rapist might be someone she knows, someone she loves, a stranger, a family member, a friend.
Express Fluency - the language school on Flat Street in Brattleboro - and Latchis Arts are teaming up to offer a Sunday-afternoon series of four classic films starring Gerard Depardieu at the height of his career. Each of the films will be introduced at 4 p.m, and after each movie the public is invited to an informal conversation in English about the film at the Express Fluency classroom on Flat Street. The Return of Martin Guerre, based on a true...
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