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Voices

Tiny House Festival needs volunteers

By
Jennifer Jacobs
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 — Issue 371

BRATTLEBORO — Helpers are needed at Brattleboro's very own, first-ever Tiny House Fest Vermont on Sunday, Sept. 4.

Many jobs and different shifts are available, including pre-event tasks. Volunteers will gain admission to the festival and some other fun perks.

For more information about volunteering or to sign up, contact Jennifer Jacobs, volunteer coordinator, at jennifer@thriveeap.com.

For more information about the festival or to buy a festival pass (and tiny house inspired local art), visit indiegogo.com/projects/tiny-house-fest-vermont#/.

Voices

Planet Hank is at our door

By
Anne Henshaw

Anne Henshaw is an independent educational consultant and advocate for disability rights. CHESTER-On Oct. 18,

Danger to the Constitution

By
Laurie Goldman

TRENTON, MAINE-Jo Schneiderman's piece on self-censorship is one of the most important and precise framings...

We must do more to stop U.S. complicity in Gaza

By
Steve Wangh

BRATTLEBORO-Our senators, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders, and our Representative, Becca Balint, have been in...

Sweat and ash: the spirit of community in Windham

By
Michael Pelton

Michael Pelton, a farm owner and operator and engaged community member, serves on the Windham...

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PCBs throw a wrench in gym roof repair plans

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 — Issue 778

WESTMINSTER-Work to replace the roof over the gym at this summer at Bellows Falls Union High School, among some $9 million in projects underway, has suddenly stalled. The project "is on hold because the PCB-laden roof decking itself has to come off," WNESU board member David Clark wrote to The Commons. Clark said the project would cost an estimated additional $500,000 to $1 million, "with no current funding stream." BFUHS Board Chair Rob Weltz said the board is working on...

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Voices

The climate clock has already run out

By
Gemma Seymour
Sunday, July 30, 2023 — Issue 724

Bill McKibben is a very smart man, but he is also completely misguided in his attacks on "Big Oil." Everyone needs to stop blaming corporations for their actions. Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil, or whoever, aren't responsible for society's addiction to oil. They are certainly not responsible for Bill McKibben's lavish, jetsetting lifestyle, in which he personally is responsible for burning countless tons of fossil fuels into the upper atmosphere, where it does the most damage of all, while getting paid...

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Arts

Regional artists tackle theme of pandemic

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 — Issue 663

How will we emerge? This question is central to the new interactive art exhibition, “Emergence,” at Main Street Arts in Saxtons River. This show, the third one since COVID-19 closed the organization in 2020, features the work of 10 artists living and working in southeastern Vermont. They are Anya Bredbeck of Westminster, Vale Burns of Brattleboro, Candace Jensen of Westminster West, Meetra Khamoosh who recently arrived from Afghanistan, Collin Leech of Westminster West, Evie Lovett of Westminster West, Fiona Morehouse...

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