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BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
Maple syrup and songbirds have something in common: They rely on healthy forests. A pilot program is helping farmers who harvest sap from the maple trees create and maintain these “bird-friendly” habitats. The Bird-Friendly Maple Project operates through Audubon Vermont and is a collaboration among that organization, the state Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, and the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association (VMSMA). “Without the forested landscape that we have out there so prominently in northern New England, we really...
BRATTLEBORO-ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., is supporting the Vermont Reads community program by hosting an event centered around the book Gather, by Kenneth M. Cadow (Candlewick Press), on Thursday, April 3, from 4 to 6 p.m. Teachers, teens, and the Brattleboro community are invited to participate in a Pick-Up Party, where participants will pick up a free copy of Gather, sign up for a discussion session, and enjoy light refreshments while meeting fellow readers. Gather, the 2024–25 Vermont...
When news of another school slaughter broke, this time again in Texas, the bile that rose in my throat was as bitter as the memory of Columbine, Newtown, Parkland and the other grievous incidents of gun violence in schools - all 554 of them since 1999, as NPR has reported. From the Carolinas to California, 27 school shootings are among the 214 mass shootings this year alone in the United States, and it's only May. But this is not a...
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