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No paper next week

Tuesday, December 17, 2024 — Issue 795

BRATTLEBORO-As usual, The Commons will not publish an edition for the last week of the year.

The next issue of the newspaper will be published Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. Deadline for news and advertising is Friday, Dec. 27.

Because of the New Year's Day holiday, newspaper distribution will extend into Thursday, Jan. 2.

All of us at Vermont Independent Media wish our readers warm holiday greetings, a safe end of the year, and best wishes for strength, prosperity, and resilience in the months to come.

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Mr. Rumrill’s opus

By
Robert F. Smith

ROCKINGHAM-Longtime Bellows Falls Middle School (BFMS) music teacher Stanley Rumrill Jr. has been named the...

County’s sole medical cannabis dispensary closes

By
Devan Monette

BRATTLEBORO-The only medical cannabis dispensary in the region, CeresMed South on Putney Road, closed its...

C&S Wholesale Grocers to lay off workers in Brattleboro

By
Klara Bauters

BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Department of Labor has received notice that C&S Wholesale Grocers is planning layoffs...

WSESU will manage food service for schools in three towns,

By
Virginia Ray

BRATTLEBORO-In the hope that students will eat more nutritionally and feel more healthy, the Windham...

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Helping organic farms blossom

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024 — Issue 783

NEWFANE-It's a mid-September afternoon, warm under a bright late-summer sky, and Laura Xiao of By Hand Farm in Newfane is sharing her love for raising cut flowers - and sharing her know-how - with eager participants in a workshop offered by the Northeast Organic Farming Association-Vermont (NOFA-VT). Coming from as far north as Burlington and as far east as Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Londonderry, New Hampshire, participants listen, ask questions, and take notes. The 29-year-old Xiao, who sells directly to customers...

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The Dems have no one but themselves to blame

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024 — Issue 790

Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this newspaper, writes that if he didn't love his country, he "wouldn't spend so much time trying to get it to live up to its purported principles." WILLIAMSVILLE-In the aftermath of the victory of the felon, Democrats, searching for a scapegoat, are looking everywhere except in the mirror. To be sure, a sensationalist heavily partisan media spun, obscured, and lied their way through the election campaign,

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Brattleboro Town Arts Fund taking applications for arts project funding

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 — Issue 762

Arts Council of Windham County (ACWC) has opened the application period for the 2024 Brattleboro Town Arts Fund (TAF) program. Now in its fifth year, the TAF program will offer grants between $1,000 and $3,000 for creative, community-focused projects completed between July 2024 and May 2025. Applications are due by May 15. The program overview and application guidelines can be found at artswindhamcounty.org/taf. TAF's mission is to promote the development and presentation of creative projects that contribute positively to the...

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