The growth over the past three years of Home at Last, a nonprofit that provides permanent housing to homeless veterans, is a mixed blessing. It now owns five mobile homes in the Brattleboro area, providing housing for seven occupants. It is close to obtaining a sixth. But for Home at Last founder Bob Miller of West Brattleboro, that growth has meant that the problem of homelessness among veterans is just getting bigger. “It's not even a drop in the bucket,”
The Crowell Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., invites one and all to take a photographic journey through the Republic of Georgia with Dummerston photographer Stephen Tavella. With 16 images, Tavella hopes to convey a sense of that which is uniquely Georgian, despite Greek, Roman, Arab, Persian, Mongol, Turkish, Russian, Christian, Muslim, eastern and now western invasions and influences spanning two millennia. Tavella has been exploring and photographing landscapes and cultures from around the world since his days...
Many co-ops today, including the one I first joined, Bloomingfoods, are barely recognizable descendants of those co-ops of yore. Instead of a members-only co-op where you could be a member only if you worked, many co-ops now sell to non-members in the name of increasing profits. Instead of a cooperative and consensus form of government, there are now in many co-opted co-op leadership teams, i.e., a management elite, who guide the co-op toward increasing profits and we-need-to-grow-grow-grow expansion. Instead of...
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