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Brattleboro Time Trade receives grant

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 — Issue 291

BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Time Trade is one of 38 organizations to receive a recent grant from the Small and Inspiring Grants Program at the local-minded Vermont Community Foundation.

One of a number of competitive grant rounds at the Foundation, Small and Inspiring Grants fund work “that helps connect people to their neighbors, their land, and their history in ways that strengthen community.”

Brattleboro Time Trade says it has received $2,080 through the program to reach out to low-income community members and welcome them into the organization's extended network of time- and resource-sharing neighbors.

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Three pieces of advice for towns facing a plant closure

By
Mike Faher
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 — Issue 379

Key points from “When People and Money Leave (and the Plant Stays)” include: Plan, and plan for the worstMany of the “lessons learned” preach comprehensive planning - as much of it as possible, and as early as possible. For example, though Vermont Yankee was always controversial, Windham Regional Commission stayed involved in plant proceedings over the years from a “neutral position so it could promote conversation among all sides,” officials wrote. Also, the report notes that the Windham Region's Comprehensive...

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Voices

The high road, the low road and — soon — the no road

By
Michael Hoffman
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 — Issue 667

You take the high road, and I'll take the low. May we all get to Bratt's village, safely, in the morning. Seriously, now. I just had the experience - by myself, with our friends, and with visiting family from afar - of dealing with our roads. I'm not referring to the naturally treacherous frost-heaved dirt roads of March and April. These are rites of passage for locals. I'm talking about the high-priority routes: Route 9 (Western Avenue and Marlboro Road),

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Arts

CX Silver Gallery presents new exhibit by Cai Xi

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 — Issue 766

BRATTLEBORO-CX Silver Gallery, 814 Western Ave., presents "Then and Now" an exhibition of works by Cai Xi, through Aug. 26. Cai was in the first generation of art students when universities in China reopened after The Cultural Revolution. According to the gallery's website, her work "traces a path from Sichuan Style in the late '70s with a palette intermingling hues that echo the surrounding environment, and the Shanghai style of the '80s, with color used straight from the tube, with...

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