Michael Gigante, the clinician at the Brattleboro AIDS Project (now the AIDS Project of Southern...
BELLOWS FALLS-My name is Dylan Stewart, and I am a senior at Windham Regional Career...
NEWFANE-Like a spoiled child, Donald Trump is whining about wanting a birthday parade that will...
Timothy Belknap is a Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting member representing District 9. For more information...
After a year of mostly virtual learning from home and being without daily contact with friends and other social engagement, Vermont students will return to in-person schooling this fall. But first, the state wants to make the summer count by funding enrichment programs to help ease that year-long isolation. To that end, Gov. Phil Scott, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and a South Burlington–based nonprofit, Vermont Afterschool, have announced the recipients of the Summer Matters for All grant program. In...
RE: “TransCanada seeks to lower taxes for dam,” The Commons, July 18: The value of the Bellows Falls Dam is a long-term proposition, not something that should fluctuate year by year with, say, the price of natural gas. If energy-generating properties weren't of great value, Entergy wouldn't be fighting to keep Vermont Yankee open beyond the end of its designed life, and wind developers wouldn't be coveting Vermont's ridgelines. TransCanada, a corporation that, as the article notes, does not honor...
Reprising his role as the creator of everything that ever is, was, or will be, Rich Potter will present “God: The One-Man Show” April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hooker-Dunham Theater in downtown Brattleboro. According to a news release, the show reveals Potter's take on what “Our Supreme Being” was doing in the moments before the big bang. The show has garnered strong reviews, including a nod from the DC Metro Theater Arts calling it “a comedic hurricane.” According...
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