BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced...
BRATTLEBORO-Greg Lesch. the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, died Feb. 19,
Many people in Windham County look on in frustration as they watch the police arrest...
ROCKINGHAM-The town of Rockingham recently announced that the Proposed Amendments to the town's Zoning and...
Vermont still ranks at the top of the annual Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index, meaning that it has the strongest producers and consumers of local food of any of the 50 states. However, the rest of the Index has been considerably shaken up by new data derived from the recent Census of Agriculture, conducted by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The Index has been published annually since 2012 by Strolling of the Heifers, a non-profit food advocacy organization.
Voters approved a resolution at this year's Annual Representative Town Meeting to allocate $15,000 to create a Town Arts Fund. This resolution came about in response to persistent concerns over the past decade expressed by members of the arts community that such a critical contributor to Brattleboro's identity as its artists and arts organizations ought to receive town support and be part of the budget. The working group that brought the proposal before Town Meeting has expanded and now includes...
I was rushing through my day when I took a break to aimlessly scroll, and came across the piece in last week's Commons written by my friend Mindy Haskins Rogers. I read it through once with an oh-holy-crap response. I then flattened my feet against the floor, took a deep breath, and read it again. As a survivor of plenty, I have learned to feel into my responses in my body, even all these years later. On that day, I...
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