BRATTLEBORO — I would like to teach you about farming.
I have to say: Kids pick our food. Farm owners spray pesticides on the food. The pesticides make kids sick.
People who work in this profession should get $4 to $20 per bucket or bag.
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues for almost...
The Northwest Quarterly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) is a coalition of 14 Quaker congregations in...
This letter was submitted on behalf of Spark faculty. PUTNEY-We, the faculty of the Spark...
Matt Dorsey serves on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He delivered this memoriam to...
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...
Is a picture worth a thousand bucks? This could very well be the case during the In-Sight Photography Project Benefit Auction, now underway. Local, national, and international artists have donated 109 works to this annual auction, which started 23 years ago. This special event is the biggest fundraiser activity for the project, with funds providing scholarships for local students to participate in the nonprofit's photography courses. In-Sight was originally founded one day in 1992 when two local educators, Bill Ledger...
The year was 1918. A virus that some experts think was an avian flu spread so rapidly that in a short time it became the most severe pandemic in recent history. Worldwide, during 1918 and 1919 it infected an estimated 500 million people. That was a third of the world's population. At least 50 million died from the devastating flu globally. Close to 700,000 of those deaths occurred in the United States. Many of them were under the age of...
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