• Deep sea fishing in New England: On Friday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the main room of the Brooks Memorial Library in downtown Brattleboro, Sandy Macfarlane, author, will lead a free discussion about topics presented in her book, Tiggie: The Lure and Lore of Commercial Fishing in New England. She will also comment on her personal experience with oil in the marine environment and the effects of oil in New England waters.
Tiggie was named the 2009 Best Regional Non-fiction and received the Independent Publishing Awards Bronze Medal. The book focuses on Charles “Tiggie” Peluso, one of the Cape's crustiest, crankiest commercial fishermen, who shares his harrowing stories of fishing New England's waters in one of the world's deadliest occupations.
Macfarlane spent her childhood summers around the waters of Cape Cod. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts, she settled in the Cape town of Orleans where she began her professional career as shellfish biologist for the Town of Orleans. Later, she was appointed as the town's first conservation administrator. Sandy retired from town government in 1998, was awarded a master's degree in resource management from Antioch New England Graduate School and founded Coastal Resource Specialists, a consulting company devoted to shellfish, coastal and watershed issues.
• Local cookbook author Deborah Krasner will talk about and autograph copies of her newest book, Good Meat, The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at Kitchen Sync, next to Vermont Artisan Designs on Main Street.
Some opponents of Vermont Yankee are quoted in newspaper letters and articles questioning the number of jobs at risk if Vermont Yankee closes and other benefits of the plant. A study commissioned by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and written by prominent state economist Richard Heaps found that...
I just read Vidda Crochetta's Viewpoint [“What lf?,” The Commons, Sept. 15] about the possibility that the World Trade Center attacks were an internal demolition job. It was the first in-depth article I had read on this topic and I found it fascinating. I am aware that this belief...
I have known Richard Davis for 25 years. We have worked together on many projects over the years. The reason we have been able to accomplish so much, including raising over $125,000 for the Windham County Heat Fund, is because Richard get things done. He is a doer. I was very happy when Richard told me he was running to replace Patty O'Donnell in the Vermont House. Our political beliefs are similar, especially when it comes to health care. When...
Richie Havens, the man who opened Woodstock and has had a long and storied folksinging career with performances throughout the world, will make two appearances in November to benefit New England farmers in the third annual Strolling of the Heifers Farm Relief Concert Tour. There will be two shows - on Friday, Nov. 12, at the Lebanon (N.H.) Opera House and on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Latchis Theatre in downtown Brattleboro. Opening both shows for Richie Havens will be...
Recently, at a “Global Affairs Conference on Empowering Women for Health,” I was stunned: Not only did “gender” never arise as a reason for disparities in access to health care in poor countries, all the data presented was based on males! When I was called on in the question-and-answer session to address these obvious problems, I asked how many in the audience had noticed that five men were allowed to speak before I was invited to offer an observation. “That's...
Karl Rove Is Back,” the New York Times headline reads - and, he's directing campaign strategy all over the country, the story goes on to report. Here in Vermont, we see gubernatorial candidate Dubie hobnobbing with former President Bush. Then, he comes home to these green hills with a campaign strategy of dirt and deception, the likes of which we haven't seen before in this state. Could Karl Rove's fingerprints be all over this campaign? “Mutton dressed as lamb” is...
Obituaries Editor's note: The Commons will publish brief biographical information for citizens of Windham County and others, on request, as community news, free of charge. •Madelin Belle Aldrich, 82, of Vernon. Died Oct. 2 at Vernon Green Nursing Home. Wife of the late Charles Aldrich for 54 years. Mother of Lori Aldrich of Hinsdale, N.H., and Michael Aldrich of Halifax. Sister of Alton Cutler and Richard Cutler, both of Vernon; Robert Cutler of Columbus Grove, Ohio; Joyce Dunklee and Barbara...
The Twin Valley-Leland & Gray soccer rivalry is not just for the boys. The girls teams bring an equal level of intensity to their matches, as shown by the 2-1 double overtime win by the Wildcats in Townshend on Thursday. The Rebels had the early lead in this match with a windblown 40 yard strike from Chelsea Cox in the 12th minute. Twin Valley had plenty of chances to get an equalizer in the first half, but solid goalkeeping by...
When Vermont voters go to the polls on Nov. 2, they will be asked to amend the state's Constitution to allow 17-year-olds to vote in primaries if they turn 18 by Election Day. Windham County Sen. Jeanette White is the sponsor of the measure, which was put on the 2010 ballot after the Legislature voted for it in the 2009 and 2010 sessions as required by the Vermont Constitution. White, a Democrat from Putney, said the inspiration for the measure...
What race are you?” the woman from the census asked me years ago. She reeled off a long list of choices from Asian to Zulu. “I'm a redneck.” I said after considering the options carefully. “Yeah, I like that.” she said, scribbling fast. Long a term of derision, the word redneck has undergone a subtle transformation. Many people have reclaimed it with a sense of pride. In the past, rednecks have been given a bad reputation for being...
The lower end of Main Street looked a good deal different in 1927 than it does today, but the soon to be built Brattleboro Food Co-op, located where Best Muffler was recently torn down, follows some of the foot prints of the long gone Vinton Block. In a way, it will return lower Main Street back to the way it looked 83 years ago. “Vinton Block is Nearly Finished,” was the headline in the business section of the Jan. 14,
Bats are dropping like flies. With three-quarters of the bat population dead, scientists fear some species, such as Vermont's Little Brown Bat, could be headed for extinction. Hibernating bats are succumbing to a condition called White Nose Syndrome (WNS) caused by a newly introduced cold-loving fungus. The fungus looks like a gentle dusting of snow. In reality, it burrows deep into the bats' skin, according to Scott Darling, a wildlife biologist with the state's Agency of Natural Resources. More than...
“It's time to move on to something else.” That's what Walter Slowinski, M.D., said of his Oct. 22 departure from the Putney Medical Office, where he has been practicing for the last 12 years. Slowinski said his decision has nothing to do with finances and everything to do with wanting to focus on his lifelong passion for making clay pots, developing a web presence to market them, finding galleries to carry his ceramics, and “moving [his] work out into the...
On Sunday, Oct. 17, a performance/ritual will occur at the Stone Church in Brattleboro unlike anything you, or most people, have ever seen, unless you've seen butoh before. I had never heard of butoh before my husband, experimental musician John Loggia, told me he would be playing for a performance here in town. A butoh dancer, Angela Martinelli, had recently arrived from Seattle and was eager to bring the form to Brattleboro, where apparently it has not been performed before.
Anyone can make a mistake. We all should value and support the efforts of anyone who wants to create community news - particularly volunteers working for a good cause. Those hours are long and often thankless, but the benefit to the community is incalculable. But questions about the two pages in the October issue of The Vernon Newspaper have sparked a controversy in the Windham-1 House race between Richard Davis of Guilford and Mike Hebert of Vernon. Davis contends that...
After passionate discourse between residents and officials, the Selectboard voted 3-2 in favor of naming the new bridge linking Western Avenue to Guilford Street and Living Memorial Park, Citizens Bridge. Selectboard Chair Dick DeGray suggested Citizens Bridge at the previous board meeting as a way to honor numerous town residents into the future. He says names will be added to a plaque on the bridge as a sign of respect. Selectboard Clerk Jesse Corum, who later voted against the name,
The news on Oct. 8 that routine testing revealed tritium in a former drinking water well, known as the COB well, at Vermont Yankee has sparked a new round of debates about the safety the 38-year-old power plant. The company says the findings of tritium in the well water reflects nothing other than the effects of last winter's leak - since repaired. Opponents say the fact that the tritium is moving through the ground also shows the potential for other,
A recent survey prepared by Erin Ruitenberg, an AmeriCorps/VISTA volunteer for the Brattleboro Community Justice Center, and numerous volunteers revealed people frequenting Elliot Street perceive not youth, but adults, as the source of most of the area's unwanted behavior. The survey, conducted on Elliot and Flat streets on Sept. 17 and 19, sought to gauge perceptions of visitors, residents, workers and business owners regarding youth “problem” behavior. Ruitenberg said the broad question the survey asked was, “do most people see...
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A delegation of Russians and Norwegians spent the past week in Vermont to study the decommissioning of nuclear plants in New England. The issue has grown in importance in Russia, which has 31 civil nuclear reactors that produce 16 percent of that nation's electricity, as well as 13 reactors that are being operated beyond their original projected 40-year lifespan. Oleg Bodrov, an engineer and physicist, spoke about nuclear energy issues in Russia, and the differences between the decommissioning process there...
For the second straight year, men, women and children who have no place else to go on cold nights in winter will have at least a floor to sleep on and warm shelter overnight in Bellows Falls. The village's overnight shelter will open on Nov. 15, if all goes according to plan, according to Louise Luring of Our Place Drop-In Center and who also serves on the shelter steering committee. Alpha G Corporation is renting space for the overnight shelter...
Over a lunchtime conversation at Our Place Drop-In center, chef Matt and volunteer Kenny both acknowledge their homelessness at one point in their lives, saying that is at least part of why they work and volunteer at Our Place - they know and understand the need people have for such a place. Our Place Drop-In Center is on 4 Island St., and provides two meals four days a week. It also has a food shelf, a shower and a telephone.
Citizens Bridge” would not have been my first choice of name for the new structure, but it is a creative solution to rising contention over the name. Since that name has now been voted in, I have an important plea that I hope is “punctual”: an apostrophe, please! The proper way to punctuate the new bridge name is “Citizens' Bridge.” Aside from being correct, that little mark should also help dispel confusion about whether the new bridge enjoys corporate sponsorship.
Local cookbook author Deborah Krasner will talk about and autograph copies of her newest book, Good Meat, The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, at Kitchen Sync, next to Vermont Artisan Designs on Main Street. In Good Meat, Krasner, a James Beard cookbook award winner from Westminster, shows concerned consumers how to find, order, and prepare sustainably raised meat, thus making the vital connections among responsible agriculture, delicious food, good...
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