BRATTLEBORO — Thank you, Meg McCarthy, for your well-written commentary.
It is important that Vermont keep its prisoners here in Vermont - especially when they have lived the majority of their lives here.
MacLean Gander is retired from a long career as a professor and administrator at Landmark...
Deborah Lee Luskin , one of this newspaper's original columnists, blogs at deborahleeluskin.com. WILLIAMSVILLE-I have...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont...
Meg Donahue is cofounder and chief creative officer of MamaSezz.com, an online enterprise that works...
Focused on growing conscious food and agriculture businesses, the Entrepreneur to Table Summit will take place in Brattleboro on Thursday and Friday, June 1 and 2. Presented by the Strolling of the Heifers' Slow Living Summit and Windham Grows, the Stroll's agricultural incubator program, the Entrepreneur to Table Summit aims to directly impact the growth of food and agriculture industry by investing in local communities, businesses, and farms that support it. “Starting a business is challenging mentally, physically, and financially,”
The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites everyone to join them on Friday, March 11, at 5 p.m., for a very different monthly Literary Cocktail Hour with Vermont author David R. Holmes. The online event is free and open to the public; register at bit.ly/LitCocktail18. On Being a Vermonter and the Rise and Fall of the Holmes Farm 1822–1923 is a case study of a Vermont farm that existed from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. As the Holmes Farm pioneered...
Recently, The Commons printed an article and letters regarding the Putney Food Co-op, proposed changes to its by-laws, and its involvement with CDS Consulting. As members - we mean, shareholders - of the Brattleboro Food Co-op, we assume that means that the Putney Co-op is going to become like our co-op in Brattleboro; perhaps not in size, but in the management structure, profits, and corporate feel. In August a few disheartened shareholders started the Brattleboro Food Co-op Shareholder Forum -
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