BRATTLEBORO — We here at Harmony Underground see the problem hour by hour. People are afraid to come in the parking lot, and I don't blame them.
We would love to see a business watch, like a neighborhood watch. What can be done?
Meg Mott, Ph.D. is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself...
Ross Momaney (rmm-art.com) is a visual artist and arts educator. By blending these roles, he...
Michelle Bos-Lun and Richard Nelson are state representatives who sit across the table from each...
Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and...
Wet snow pelts the windows of Susan McMahon's second-floor office at Scott Farm. The new executive director of the Landmark Trust USA extracts three shriveled rose hips - the color of raw sienna and the size of a ping-pong ball - from a cardboard box. Medlars, she calls them. “Here, you squish them like this,” she said. “It tastes like cinnamon apples.” The unglamorous heritage fruit is popular in Iran and Turkey, explained McMahon. The mushy (edible) flesh looks like...
Around the world, as our nations attempt to get out from under this pandemic, a question looms: How can we pay for recovery? One increasingly popular idea globally: Tax the billionaires who've profited tremendously during the pandemic. And here in the U.S., nearly two-thirds of us now say we support a tax on extreme wealth, including the proposal introduced in Congress by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Pramila Jayapal. Critics, like billionaire investor Leon Cooperman, counter that if a wealth...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) and Retreat Farm present the inaugural Artful Ice Shanties Design-Build Competition. Artists, ice fishing enthusiasts, tiny house aficionados, and design-builders of all ages and experience levels are invited to build artful ice shanties that will be displayed at Retreat Farm from Feb. 13 through Feb. 28. Entries can be built by individuals or by groups of friends, family members, classmates, office colleagues, or any kind of team. Registration forms and details, including building...
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