Is a bucolic, 177-acre hillside campus a good place for a wintertime homeless shelter? That was a recurring question at an Aug. 16 community meeting, as some residents balked at plans to move Brattleboro's seasonal overflow shelter from its longtime downtown home to the Winston Prouty campus a few miles away. The big concern is whether shelter administrators can maintain safety and security on a property that hosts several schools and other nonprofits. “There's no debate that this [shelter] is...
Latchis Arts presents jazz vocalist Kendra Shank in the Circle of Love Benefit Concert for Groundworks Collaborative on Saturday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. Hailed as “a supremely skilled vocalist” (The New York Times) with a “delectable voice” (Time), Shank has headlined at festivals, concerts, and clubs around the world. She combines jazz originals, standards, world music, French chansons, folk/pop songs, and improvisation in an adventurous style that inspired jazz great Abbey Lincoln to call her “an original; a singer...
The Brattleboro Food Co-op management has hired a law firm - Downs Rachlin Martin, the largest law firm in Vermont - to fight the Co-op employees unionizing with the UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers) Local 1459. Perhaps you have heard of “union busting” before. A strong majority of the employees have signed a petition declaring that unionizing is something they want to do. (Why? isn't the Co-op already a really great place to work? Read “Workers unionize at Brattleboro...
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