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.
Rick Holmes, of Marlboro, is a retired newspaper editor and columnist. MARLBORO-Ho Chi Minh City,
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Good day to you! The past week has been stormy indeed, with plenty of rainfall to the southern Vermont region, and wind as well. It certainly has been dynamic in the weather department, recently, but our atmospheric drama is going to smooth itself out for a spell. Generally speaking, we have to deal with a couple of pairs of frontal passages on Thursday and Friday, and then again on Sunday and Monday. These will bring scattered showers, a little bit...
Brattleboro Clayworks, a long-running collective and resource for ceramics in the tri-state area at 532 Putney Rd., will be reopening its showroom on Aug. 1, following months of closure due to the coronavirus. According to a news release, the spacious showroom “features ceramics by members whose work you may already know and love - mugs, cups, bowls, and other items decorative or playful, such as bird whistles. There will also be new work done by members whose limitations from being...
Scapegoating is a tactic used in small and large systems - families, communities, nations - to place all of the blame for a problem onto one person or group of people. It's used by those in power to avoid accountability or prevent a more nuanced analysis of a difficult situation, or both. The scapegoat is almost always a person with less power, or no power at all, because it's easy to pick on someone who is already down. They're less...
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