DUMMERSTON — Wonderfully detailed and complete article on the status of recycling and trash disposal but no information on how options affect the environment and climate change.
I would love to read more in a future story.
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Events that celebrate a unique quirk of a town - like the Gilfeather Turnip Festival - might look like frivolity on the surface. But Paul Costello said that these community events serve a larger purpose. Events and festivals help bring community members together for something fun that celebrates the town, said Costello, the executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development. But they also help build the town's identity, he said. Such events also attract people to the community...
Last year, Brattleboro Community Television went before selectboards in our service area for the first time to request funding to support video coverage of municipal meetings and Representative Town Meeting. The request was initiated in response to a proposed change by the Federal Communications Commission to the Cable Act, which established cable-subscriber fees as the primary source of support for public access television in 1984. Despite thousands of letters filed in opposition, the change was passed and went into effect...
“Gretchen Seifert: In Abstraction,” the first show in the Canal Street Art Gallery's new spring solo shows lineup of local artists and artwork, is on view to the public and via the gallery's website through Saturday, April 3. “I see abstraction as an opportunity to be curious and to discover,” Seifert said in her artist's statement. “There is an important imaginal quality, a dreamlike exploration that occurs. Abstraction has always, for me, been a doorway into the complex of individual-ness,
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