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.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
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The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
The Bellows Falls Garage Housing Project is ready for winter and on schedule to be completed in 2023. The wood-and-concrete block structure just north of The Square at 115 Rockingham St., is fully framed. The roof is finished, the exterior is sheathed, and the windows have been installed. Buttoned up and ready for the cold and snow, the winter months will be used to finish the building's interior. “Work is going as scheduled,” said Elizabeth Bridgewater, executive director of the...
This letter is to register my support for the staff wishing to organize the Brattleboro Food Co-op, and an expression of my dismay at the actions taken by the board and Alex Gyori, the store's general manager. By hiring a notoriously labor-unfriendly (some would say “union-busting”) law firm such as Downs Rachlin Martin (DRM), the management is further expressing and taking advantage of the power imbalance between it and labor. How nice that Mr. Gyori and company have access to...
New England Youth Theatre's Theatre Adventure presents Jill & Jack and the Beanstalk, at 10:30 a.m. on May 15, 16, and 17 at the West Village Meeting House, 29 South St. Imagination rules in this classic fairy tale where wit, determination, and love triumph over a villainous giant. A dancing cow, a trickster peddler, a singing harp, and a magical hen are only a few of the characters Jill and Jack encounter in their quest to help Jack's mother. Their...
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