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...
A judge has found Zaaina Asra Zakirrah Mahvish-Jammeh, charged with murdering their social worker at the Morningside House shelter last month, temporarily incompetent to stand trial. The state can request a new competency evaluation, according to an order regarding competency signed by Superior Court Judge Katherine Hayes. A status conference is set for Aug. 9. Mahvish-Jammeh is charged with first-degree murder, accused of killing Leah Rosin-Pritchard, the social worker and shelter coordinator at the Morningside House shelter at 81 Royal...
ROCKINGHAM-I am concerned and dismayed over the recent decision by the management of North Star Health to close the Health Center at Bellows Falls. This action seems to prioritize convenience for a select few while leaving the most vulnerable members of our community without access to essential health care services. In doing so, the decision is contributing to the creation of a health care desert that will undoubtedly have severe consequences for the residents of Bellows Falls and the surrounding...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of traditional and contemporary Scottish and fiddle music by duos Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas and San Miguel Fraser (Galen Fraser & Maria San Miguel) on Sunday, Oct. 20, at 7 p.m. at Next Stage. The musical partnership between Alasdair Fraser, "the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling," and Californian cellist, Natalie Haas, has been described as "spanning the full spectrum between intimate chamber music and ecstatic dance energy," according to their...
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