BRATTLEBORO — Some people at big farms - both kids and adults - pick our food, like lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and potatoes.
Some of the workers are migrant workers. The farm workers and the migrant workers work for a long time, sometimes for 10 to 14 hours per day. Is that crazy, or what?
They work in serious heat. They could get really sick. They could get heat stroke and dizziness, too.
I think they should have breaks for an hour, because they work very hard.
Fric Spruyt is a property owner and property manager in Brattleboro and a member of...
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Those planning the expansion of the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center expect to increase the number of visitors downtown - substantially. “Our current expectation,” said Danny Litchtenfeld, the museum's executive director, “is that our annual attendance will double - from 16,000 today to roughly 35,000 - when this transformation is complete.” While these numbers are early estimates, Litchtenfeld said that they're based on the experience of museum expansion projects in other New England communities, such as the Massachusetts Museum of...
In this era, while we see impressive gains in some areas of civil liberties, we also see stagnation, serious threats to progress, and outright regression in others. Democracy itself is under severe threat with upsurges in authoritarianism and oligarchy both abroad and in the U.S. We might sometimes like to take comfort that we live in a state where a more-egalitarian approach is often the rule. But even Vermont's more open-minded approach is threatened by the recent passage by the...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) invites children in grades K–6 to dream up, draw, and submit imaginary creatures for the 2023 edition of “Glasstastic,” a biennial celebration of youthful imagination and creativity. Launched in 2011, “Glasstastic” grew from 250 submissions the first year to more than 1,200 in 2018. Each year, professional glass artists from throughout New England give generously of their time and talent to turn a selection of submitted student art into three-dimensional glass sculptures. The...
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