BRATTLEBORO — Some people at big farms - both kids and adults - pick our food, like lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and potatoes.
Some of the workers are migrant workers. The farm workers and the migrant workers work for a long time, sometimes for 10 to 14 hours per day. Is that crazy, or what?
They work in serious heat. They could get really sick. They could get heat stroke and dizziness, too.
I think they should have breaks for an hour, because they work very hard.
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On Tuesday, June 25, voters of the Windham Southeast School District will consider a funding amendment to the proposed merged $50 million fiscal year 2020 budget. The Brattleboro Town School District is supporting a motion to add $100,000 to the district budget to expand and support the work of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice. “The work of creating an equitable school system has been underfunded for years,” said David Schoales. Schoales, the chair of the Town School...
One of the first things I do to wake up my daughter on a school morning is to turn on her radio. She likes to listen to Keene's pop station with a really funny morning duo. The first words I heard on this first Monday in October were, “There has been another mass shooting.” The first words out of my daughter's mouth as she rolled over in bed were, “Another shooting?” I sat on the edge of her bed and...
Project HOPE facilitator Amber Paris will offer two free, open-materials, page-making workshops at the Putney Public Library in February. Paris has initiated project HOPE's “Community Book of Hope” at the Library as a collaborative, community effort. Artists and writers of all ages are invited to give work created around the prompt: “hope is...” which will be collectively hand-bound into a book that will remain at the Library. Workshop dates are Monday, Feb. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., and Sunday,
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