BELLOWS FALLS — As a small-business owner, I have found myself in Dunklee's numerous times and have always left a satisfied customer, for much less than I was expecting.
Jonathan Elwell organizes with Vermont Just Justice, an organization whose mission is "to promote the...
Elizabeth Bridgewater is executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust. BRATTLEBORO-Every April, communities...
Libby Bennett and Rita Ramirez submitted this piece on behalf of Groundworks Collaborative, where they...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the...
Jeff Battaglini has painted his hives with different motifs like Punisher skulls, large honeybees, and orange honeycombs. The colorful subjects are whimsical - but the beekeeper says they also help the bees identify the hives they live in. In a hive, the queen is the egg factory. “She's not this royalty,” he said. “She is an egg-laying machine, laying between 800 to 1,200 eggs a day for two or three years.” A queen is identified by her pheromones, Battaglini said.
Interesting that the option of Brattleboro reducing spending never comes into the conversation. And that the real estate and sales taxes just keep on increasing - 7 percent until we burn through that additional revenue and then 8, 9, and 10 percent in future years. At some point, shoppers will begin to notice. Some will take the cue at 7 percent. And some shop owners of my acquaintance are considering letting their leases expire as the town makes it harder...
Housed in a former paper mill — which today looks very much like it did when the mill closed in 1963 — Stage 33 Live seems an unlikely spot for small, intimate live music concerts. In actual practice, the space has worked out just fine. Stage 33 Live is a no-frills live concert and listening room, featuring mainly folk, jazz, Americana, and roots music, with some interesting exceptions, performed by regional singer-songwriter musicians. There’s a stage, built by local music...
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