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...
The Selectboard unanimously voted to approve a resolution proclaiming the second Monday in October of each year be named “Indigenous Peoples' Day." During Representative Town Meeting in March, the body unanimously voted to recommend the Selectboard approve the proclamation. At the April 18 regular Selectboard meeting, Board Chair Kate O'Connor read the document - written by Town Attorney Bob Fisher with edits by Rich Holschuh - into the record. In addition to setting the date of the day, the proclamation...
I take issue with Christopher Bridges essay expressing unhappiness about being incorrectly accosted for shoplifting at Hannaford's. More to the point, I take issue with The Commons featuring this feast of innuendo and cloudy reasoning. Bridges' allegation - “ask any person who doesn't have white skin […] their feelings about this place and you will get [...] an unshakable feeling that people are looking at us differently or that we're being followed,” etc. - is a gross and intellectually lazy...
In a hodge-podge of books and objects left behind in the 1911 home in Marlboro where she moved with her family four years ago, Julia Zanes found a remarkable old book, Gondola Days by F. Hopkinson Smith. “Published in 1897, Gondola Days is an account of Smith's travels to Venice,” says Zanes. “It turns out that F. Hopkinson Smith was quite an accomplished man. He built the foundation of the Statue of Liberty and was also a writer, artist, and...
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