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Brattleboro board mulls messaging for acceptable conduct campaign
BRATTLEBORO-Amid rising reports of drug dealing and related crime, the town is considering an "acceptable community conduct campaign" in hopes of educating both public rule breakers and residents who are increasingly complaining about feeling unsafe.
"The goal is to influence behavior," Municipal Manager John Potter told the Selectboard, "to encourage everyone in town to be nice to each other."...
For World Learning, a new way to bring together cultures: housing
Two parcels in Brattleboro near SIT campus eyed for affordable multi-family dwellings, potentially for 150 to 200 units
BRATTLEBORO-World Learning Inc. is in the first stages of developing a creative answer to the region's housing shortage - a problem that is hitting close to home. In 2018, when its School for International Training ended on-campus degree programs, World Learning was left with many empty dorm rooms in...
An agricultural love story
Longtime Dummerston farmer Bill Schmidt will speak about Elysian Hills Farm, where he and his beloved wife, Mary Lou, grew thousands of Christmas trees and introduced the Gilfeather turnip to a new generation of Vermonters
DUMMERSTON-"I called her the Gilly Filly of Vermont," says Bill Schmidt, who is speaking about his wife Mary Lou and their farm, Elysian Hills. And with good reason. Mary Lou Schmidt died in 2021 at the age of 94. She and Bill spent 40 years together at the farm,