“The number one goal is to get cash into people's pockets,” said Emilie Kornheiser, director of workforce development for Youth Services. “It's as simple as that.” People in need can find multiple services in this town that provide a place to sleep or a meal, she said. Yet, moving from service to service also means that these community members operate in a cashless economy. People still need to buy toilet paper, said Kornheiser. whose agency recently unveiled its Work Today...
The school board has been trying to close the Westminster West School for years. In 2009, the budget was released for the West and Center schools, and we calculated that the West school cost about half as much to educate a child as the Center School. But the school board always complained that the West School cost too much. The fight over the West school included changing the makeup from 1-2 and 3-4 grades, to K-1 and 2-3 so the...
Joshua R. Helms, winner of the Dzanc Poetry Collection Award, will read from his debut poetry collection, Machines Like Us, at Everyone's Books, 25 Elliot St., on Friday, April 8, at 6 p.m. The author will be available for a brief question-and-answer session after the reading. Helms, a Brattleboro resident, describes Machines Like Us as part love story, part dreamscape, and part exploration of self. “For the characters (Speaker, Boy, and Historian), love is dangerous, disorienting, self-erasing. The three struggle...
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