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.
Cassandra Holloway works for a nonprofit that focuses on substance misuse prevention and youth empowerment. Gavin...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The United States is in a different place from where it was seven months...
GUILFORD-I want to commend Steev Lynn for correcting the historical record in response to Tristan...
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The urine collectors of southeast Windham County have a new place to deposit their contributions. On July 17, the Rich Earth Institute held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open their new urine depot, located in the former Estey Organ Factory complex on Birge Street. The nonprofit, EPA-funded REI, co-founded in 2012 by Kim Nace and Abe Noe-Hays, “engages in research, education, and technological innovation to advance the use of human waste as a resource in order to conserve water, prevent...
On Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. Get Thee to the Funnery Shakespeare Camps present the documentary, Qualities of “Mercy?” It will be streamed on YouTube at bit.ly/595-shakespeare. In 2020, the Vermont youth camp took on actors from India and tackled the problematic Shakespeare play Merchant of Venice. Campers used the text to confront prejudice, violence, and hate speech. They dealt with the pandemic lockdown, responded to the Black Lives Matter movement, and put on a play. From distances spanning...
There will be a Special Town Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 15 at 6 p.m. at the Athens Elementary School. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss and vote on how our “regular” town meetings will be held in the future. Some of the residents in Athens would like to see a change that would encourage more voters to get the vote out on Town Meeting Day. We are suggesting a change to Australian ballot for elected officials and a “regular”
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