ATHENS — By way of taking Kevin O'Keefe to task for blaming Donald Trump for inciting violence in our country, Gerard Cloutier wrote, “I, for one, do not feel as if I am living day by day with a target on my back. In fact, I enjoy every freedom America has to offer.”
At the risk of being accused of racial profiling, that statement could have been written only by a privileged white man.
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A few months ago, the Rich Earth Institute opened a new urine recycling depot at the Rockingham/Westminster Recycling Center on Route 5 in Westminster, only the latest in the nonprofit organization's cutting-edge program focused on reusing human waste as fertilizer. As human population grows, how to handle increasing human waste is a big problem, and the Rich Earth Project, based in Brattleboro for over a decade, has garnered international attention as nations around the globe wrestle with this issue. As...
A new town manager in Brattleboro whose career-average job tenure is two years and one month has to make his mark quickly before getting back to job shopping and hopping. (A LinkedIn public profile shows 10 jobs from 2003 to 2022.) A temporary town manager in town destroying our regional ambulance system to boost Brattleboro Fire Department's revenues (and expenses) makes résumé sense. A new town manager in Vermont who is from urban New Jersey, the most densely populated state,
Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal St., presents “The Spaulding Dunbar Photo-Poet Solo Show,” the artist's inaugural solo show that runs Friday, April 8, through Saturday, May 7, with an opening from 5 to 7 p.m. on April 8. The show features archival and UV-coated original prints of photographs taken by the artist on Anjali Farm in Vermont, along the New England coastline, and while visiting family in India. According to a news release, the collection “tells tales of cycles,
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