BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) is proudly celebrating 50-plus years of bringing locally grown produce to southeastern Vermont, and invites you - whether you are a foodie, a restaurateur, a health enthusiast, or simply someone who loves to be outside - to join us! We offer the freshest foods and agricultural products that can be produced in our Vermont soils. The market additionally offers our community a welcoming outdoor gathering place, with live music, tables to use while talking...
BRATTLEBORO-Given so many angry protests about the Trump administration recently, some residents thought that a positive, welcoming, whimsical approach for just one day might add a breath of fresh air. So they set up Vermont Canada Day. The idea is simple: Canada is not an enemy, nor a potential 51st state, as the president has forebodingly suggested. It is, by many objective yardsticks, a good friend and neighbor of Vermont. July 1, Canada Day, is the official Canadian celebration of...
BRATTLEBORO-When Richard Berkfield graduated from the School for International Training in 2008, he could not have imagined he would go on to build a $5 million regional food distribution network that would fundamentally reshape how communities think about local agriculture. Now, after nearly two decades of pioneering local and regional food distribution, Berkfield, founding director of Food Connects in Brattleboro, is stepping down. Since March 24, Deputy Director Lee Halpern has served as interim executive director, with Berkfield helping with...
BRATTLEBORO-After eight intense meetings to draft a new budget, the Selectboard has voted to recommend a $24.97 million budget for fiscal year 2026 budget - a budget just 1.3% less than the one that Representative Town Meeting failed to pass in March. The Selectboard-recommended plan proposes a 10.8% increase in municipal taxes, but taxpayers can expect to see their bills increase by about 5.6% on the tax levy in fiscal year 2026 when the school district is factored in. If...
BELLOWS FALLS-For more than two decades, residents and community leaders have been working on a vision to transform an abandoned, polluted 8-acre former industrial site along the Connecticut River into a universally accessible community park. That vision has resulted in Riverfront Park, a beautiful green space in the center of the Village, on the west bank of the Connecticut River, with accessible hiking trails, meadows, benches, picnic tables, a pond, a labyrinth, and the only direct access to the river...
BRATTLEBORO-On May 1, hundreds of people took to the streets of downtown Brattleboro to protect democracy and denounce the Trump administration's effort to roll back workers' rights, cut education funding, carry out mass deportations, and much more. "Show up and make your voices heard," said Calvin Dame of Brattleboro Area Action, one of the organizers of a May Day march along with Brattleboro Indivisible and 50501 Vermont. "This isn't about right and left. It's about right and wrong." "This is...
