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Voices

The one and only sweet spot to do business

By
Howard Fairman
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 — Issue 494

PUTNEY — Vermont is said to be unfriendly to business and jobs. Not Brattleboro.

Saving the Long Falls Paperboard mill (formerly Neenah) demonstrates yet again Brattleboro's solving the puzzle of economic development, with at least 15 reported public and private partners.

Look around Brattleboro. Do you see many empty storefronts? Do you see any empty factories falling down? Look around Vermont. What do you see?

“The one and only Brattleboro” is the one and only sweet spot to do business in and with Vermont.

But why don't Brattleboro economic-development websites chronicle their successes to attract more?

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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For daily newspaper, new staff and resources

By
Randolph T. Holhut
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 — Issue 465

On May 1, 2016, the Brattleboro Reformer found itself under new ownership, as a four-person group from the Berkshires had bought the daily newspaper. The Reformer, along with its sister papers - the Bennington Banner, the Manchester Journal, and The Berkshire Eagle of Pittsfield, Mass. - was purchased from Digital First Media after more than two decades of absentee ownership. At a news conference at the River Garden shortly before the sale was finalized, retired Massachusetts District Court judge Fredric...

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Voices

Our only home

By
Taryn Heon
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 — Issue 722

There are many troubling forces at play in our current zeitgeist and politics that are demanding the attention of our president and legislators. Keeping tabs on current events and the status of our sociopolitical machine is dizzying. But the problem of climate change - the future of our planet - is the backdrop and integral piece to much of the inequities and catastrophes we are facing and witnessing. Though politically it can seem as though climate change is a partisan...

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Arts

Photography exhibit, events highlight struggle of addiction

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 — Issue 477

An upcoming photography exhibit and series of related events organized by the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center shed light on what it takes to recover from addiction, a daunting challenge facing individuals, families, and communities throughout the U.S. Supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, and sponsored by the Brattleboro Retreat, “If She Has A Pulse, She Has A Chance” consists of 32 photographic portraits of Vermonters recovering from addiction and 13...

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