Staff members of the Grace Cottage Hospital will sign a Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge, and the public is invited to celebrate the signing on Tuesday, June 5, at 11 a.m.
Grace Cottage Hospital will join more than 225 health care facilities in the United States who, by signing the pledge, have agreed to adopt practices that improve the health of patients and communities through nutrition, while also protecting the environment.
The pledge-signing ceremony will take place in the Garden of Grace if weather permits and in the Dining/Community Room in the case of inclement weather. Healthy refreshments will be served.
Roger Allbee, a former Vermont Secretary of Agriculture and Grace Cottage Hospital Board Member, will talk about Grace Cottage's dietary department and the importance of local foods. Community members and hospital employees will celebrate the dietary department's work in helping to create a more local and sustainable food system.
Kate O'Connor spent nearly 13 years as former Gov. Howard Dean's most trusted advisor. From the chaotic beginning of the Dean administration after the then-lieutenant governor was sworn into office after the sudden death of Gov. Richard Snelling in August 1991, through five gubernatorial elections, through the meteoric rise...
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I grew up on a farm in Kentucky. It wasn't a big farm, but we produced food for our family and for a little extra income. So food and I - we go way back. One of my earliest memories is of setting strawberry plants for our u-pick business. My parents dropped the starter plants at the correct spacing, and my brother and I followed behind, nesting each plant carefully into freshly prepared ground, patting the soil around the base.
RE: Mark Sniatkowski's letter [“Other salvos in 'war on women,” May 9], which in itself was a response to Joyce Marcel's April 25 column, “Kunin calls for a truce in the war on women”: Aside from it seeming like quite a stretch that Sniatkowski's letter really was a reply to what Marcel's column was actually about, his response to her requires such a leap in logic that it might as well be a non sequitur. First of all, out of...
Obituaries • Anna Francis Adams, 87, of Vernon. Died May 19 at Vernon Green Nursing Home. Wife of the late Harry Adams for 36 years. Mother of Harry Adams, Jr. of Wilmington, Judith A, Scherlin of Vernon, and Nancy Adams-Waite and her husband, Richard, of Springfield, Mo. Sister of the late Mildred Green and Paul Lonsdale. Born in Springfield, Mass., the daughter of the late Dorcas Shankland and John Lonsdale, she resided with her Aunt Cindy and Uncle Leon Leclaire...
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The three million men and women who served in Vietnam have never really gotten their due. The U.S. Department of Defense is in the process of organizing a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, but the occasion has received little attention, and even many Vietnam War veterans remain unaware of the effort. But given the controversy and divisiveness that surrounded the Vietnam War, even setting an anniversary date is difficult.
The pairings came out Sunday for the state baseball and softball playoffs, and the local teams are looking good. The Brattleboro Colonels baseball team finished 15-1 and clinched the top seed in the Division I tournament. They are scheduled to host No. 16 Spaulding (3-13) in a playdown game on Wednesday. The Colonels softball team went 14-2 and were undefeated against Vermont competition. They clinched the No. 3 seed in Division I, and will host No. 14 Champlain Valley (5-11)
The In-Sight Photography Project will present an exhibition of student work at the Vermont Arts Council (VAC) in Montpelier during the months of May and June. A public reception will be held on Friday, June 8, from 4 to 8 p.m. In-Sight, the Brattleboro-based photography program for youth, is celebrating 20 years of giving local teens the tools for creative self-expression and encouraging their positive engagement in the community. “This is a significant opportunity for In-Sight students to exhibit beyond...
If there is to be a combined Community College of Vermont/Vermont Technical College campus in downtown Brattleboro, Peter Johnson would like to see it on Flat Street. Johnson, owner of Emerson's Furniture on Elliot Street, is touting a building he recently purchased at 47 Flat St., the former Sanel Auto Parts store, as the ideal location. The virtues of what he calls “The Brattleboro Quad” are many. “We've got 425 parking spaces within 200 yards of the building,” Johnson said.
Roots music is like a close-knit family and nothing illustrates it more than the line-up of performers at this year's 13th annual Roots on the River Festival in Bellows Falls. Once upon a time, maybe too long ago, there was an irreverent and gifted Canadian songwriter and musician named Fred Eaglesmith who had a knockout band called the Flying Squirrels. A Bellows Falls painter named Charlie Hunter used to manage Eaglesmith, and so he built the festival around him. That's...
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A tiny Vermont puppet theater is ready to take on one of the most monumental works in the canon of Western literature. For the past eight months, the Bluebird Theatre has been developing The Green Gold Tree, a new multimedia marionette play inspired by Goethe's Faust. The show will have its world premiere at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on June 23 and 24 at 1 p.m., where it will be presented as a work in progress. The...
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RE: “Colleges begin the journey to a downtown academic center,” May 23: In the short run, the Brooks House would be great for Community College of Vermont, but if this effort results in a need to expand further (which is very, very likely) then a location with room to do so might be more appropriate. I'd like to see an academic center down on Flat Street next to the arts campus, where there's a lot of room for future expansion...
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Gregory Jaczko resigned as head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week, ending months of open warfare with the staff and the other four commissioners over safety issues and a personal style often perceived as imperious. Jaczko's departure stills the agency's lone major voice pushing for increased safety measures at the nation's 104 nuclear power plants despite its longstanding aversion to imposing costly fixes on the politically powerful industry. And it ends a bitter public feud that led to extraordinary...
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Its time to fill in the blanks and correct some mis-information on the nuclear issue. For instance, a recent writer to this paper affirmed that there were no deaths due to the meltdown at Three Mile Island, and he complained that people were not doing the legwork necessary to get the facts straight [“Getting the facts right: that's the morality,” Letters, May 9]. Apparently, this gentleman is also guilty of not doing his legwork. Three Mile Island was not a...
The content was political; the delivery, from the heart. It was as though Barack Obama entered each and every living room to say, in a quiet and normal voice, “Same-sex couples should be able to marry.” No trumpet sounding here. Ten days later, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People voted 66-2 in agreement with President Obama's sentiment. His heart into our hearts, the uplift, catches the current of the wind, winging out into the world.
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Women wearing white masks and black T-shirts silently stood vigil at the front of the Brattleboro Union High School's multipurpose room. Men and women displaying green and white “VY for VT” buttons stood across the room. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's annual public meeting in Brattleboro on May 23 started with a protest and ended with a walkout. The NRC hosts annual public meetings around the country in communities with nuclear power plants. At the meeting at BUHS, the NRC...