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Voices

The process is inherently political

By
Jessie Haas
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 — Issue 78
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Voices

With the right support, refugees in rural Vermont can thrive

By
Pablo Bose and Thomas Huddleston

Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...

Representative Town Meeting works for a town the size of Brattleboro

By
Rebecca Bartlett

BRATTLEBORO-I have lived and voted in Brattleboro for 45 years, and I am writing about...

The wonder of paradox

By
Meg Mott

Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...

Editing words about war, and our great divide

By
Jeff Potter

Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...

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Green Up Day set for Saturday, May 7

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 — Issue 662

The 2022 edition of Green Up Day is set for Saturday, May 7, and it comes with a challenge to Vermonters. “Many residents have been contacting the Green Up Vermont office, concerned about the amount of trash on the roadsides this spring, looking for Green Up Day supplies and information, and also a solution,” Green Up Vermont Executive Director Kate Alberghini said in a news release. “I can't tell you the number of times I have heard, 'What kind of...

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Voices

Which price do we pay?

By
Michael Bosworth
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 — Issue 442

The draft Windham Regional Commission Energy Plan is disturbing, because its wording and its biases would effectively exclude economically efficient, acutely needed, renewable wind energy almost everywhere in the county where it would be feasible to site. Yet, I have some sympathies with industrial-wind-energy opponents, with those who would like to preserve our ridgelines intact. Is there any middle ground to advocate for both? * * * Though I moved to southern Vermont only 15 years ago, I have been...

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Arts

118 Elliot presents ‘Melting Pot: Paintings by Roxcell Bartholomew’

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 — Issue 629

Roxcell Bartholomew explores the psychological impact of his personal and cultural history in his first solo gallery show, “Melting Pot,” at 118 Elliot. These recent paintings employ a technique of enhanced automatic painting where the artist “allows the composition to develop freely without premeditation then refines the image into a colorful dreamscape that seems to have materialized as an architectural detail,” a technique described in a news release for the show. Bartholomew was born in St. Vincent, an island in...

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