BRATTLEBORO — How can someone stand eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs)?
For example, scientists fed a pregnant mouse GMO corn for a week. So, when she gave birth to her babies, some of them had hair growing on the roofs of their mouths and other birth defects. Pesticides made by Monsanto are killing the crops and getting into nearby rivers, killing frogs and other animals.
I don't want to have to die from poisoning. I want to live a healthy life.
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During the annual Load the Latchis Food Drive, donors put bags of groceries and supplies into almost every seat of the 762-seat Latchis Theatre - a dramatic gesture that celebrates the generosity of the community. But looks can deceive. Those donations lasted for all of three or four days, said Rosie Gardner, food shelf coordinator at the Groundworks Drop-In Center in Brattleboro. For the past year, Gardner has managed the program, which is open four days a week. Typically, 50...
As we pass another International Workers' Day, we find ourselves in yet another economic crisis. Ostensibly, this crisis is different, spawned by an unseen biological agent rather than the standard dose of late-stage capitalist destruction. But one could argue that workers are now being victimized by both. As the Coronavirus spreads and the economy implodes, we are left with $1,200 (if you fit the proper categories, e.g. not homeless, not married to a migrant, etc.), military flyovers, and a few...
The Windham Orchestra's 28th annual Concerto Competition for young musicians was held at the Brattleboro Music Center on Sunday, Feb. 2. Two co-winners were named, both Massachusetts high schoolers. And you can hear them this spring. They are cellist Nate Steele, 14, who studies in Deerfield, and violinist Alexander “Sasha” Yakub, 15, who studies in Amherst. According to Windham Orchestra Director Hugh Keelan, the competition had nine contestants and the field was what he called breathtakingly high. Indeed, he said,
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