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Voices

A vital farm and forest economy is the key to our future

By
Roger Allbee
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 — Issue 96

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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Public gets chance to weigh in on how VY clean energy payments will be used

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 — Issue 254

Last week, Gov. Peter Shumlin and Public Service Department Commissioner Christopher Recchia announced the receipt of $5.3 million from Entergy Vermont Yankee for the development of clean energy. Half of the money that Entergy deposited into the Public Service Department's Clean Energy Development Fund (CEDF) will be earmarked for Windham County projects. How will that money be used? That will be the subject of a public hearing that will be held on May 14, at 5:30 p.m., in the multipurpose...

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Voices

Holding out for a Mother’s Day gift

By
Deborah Lee Luskin
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 — Issue 151

When I was a little girl in the middle of the last century, I celebrated Mother's Day by bringing my mother breakfast in bed and giving her a homemade greeting card with a tissue-paper flower drenched in her good perfume. Mom would dutifully eat the cold cereal, which she didn't really care for, and she accepted the reeking card graciously, despite regret for my copious use of Chanel No. 5. It was all part of a charade we were programmed...

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Arts

Wardsboro Curtain Call hosts potluck supper, dance party

Wednesday, June 13, 2018 — Issue 463

On Friday, June 22, The Wyld Nightz Band returns for Wardsboro Curtain Call's annual dance party. The dance party will be held in the Wardsboro Town Hall Café, Main Street, Wardsboro. There will be a potluck supper before the show, so doors will open at 6 p.m., and music begins at 7. Bring your favorite dish to share - and your dancing shoes. BYOB. Admission is $15 at the door. This year, the music series also serves as a fundraising...

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