Beadniks, the Main Street storefront selling beads, beaded jewelry, and supplies to make it - in addition to toys, candy, gifts, gemstones, and a variety of other items - celebrated 25 years of business in October. But the shop's history is older than that. Beadniks' owner Brian Robertshaw started the business - mostly, as a store selling just beads - in Martha's Vineyard three years before moving it to Brattleboro. Robertshaw's interest in beads, and his talent at selling them,
Regarding the wind turbine vote, it's clear to many of us that Vermont's energy goals are better met by microgrids - home and community-level power generation - than by industrial wind farms on Vermont ridgelines. Such industrial sites feed into distant grid centers and are not the future of Vermont fossil-fuel independence. Power generation that is small-scale and local makes sense: it reflects our values and can meet state power goals. Development of such systems is growing, and the market...
Stone Church Arts presents the Celtic duo, Magical Strings, in concert Saturday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. Magical Strings centers around the Celtic harp and hammered dulcimer of Philip and Pam Boulding from Seattle. The concert will take place in the Chapel at Immanuel Episcopal Church, the stone church on the hill, at 20 Church St. in Bellows Falls. At times Philip and Pam Boulding augment their harp and dulcimer with violin, cello, pennywhistle, percussion and various instruments from around...
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