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The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...
BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
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BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
Sugaring in Vermont is a springtime gig. The sap won't run until a series of cold nights and warm days, and the sweet, clear liquid from the sugar maples needs to be stored colder than 38 degrees and boiled down to syrup within two to three days. In Vermont, keeping a sugarbush has always been a way to supplement a farmer's income. That's certainly true for Don Hazelton, who used to raise strawberries on his hillside farm in June and...
BRATTLEBORO-The following statement from the Zon Eastes Campaign is in response to Delores Clark's letter in the Aug. 7 edition of The Commons: Ms. Clark's letter presumes a timeline that is incorrect. To clarify, Zon Eastes left his positions at the Brattleboro Music Center and the Windham Orchestra in 2006, well before any reports of Zeke Hecker's shocking and repulsive behavior emerged. If anyone was "advised not to have him as an orchestra member," that advice could not have been...
The Ethiopian Community Development Center (ECDC), the organization that oversees refugee settlement in southern Vermont, is having a fundraiser on Saturday, March 9, featuring local refugee (and other) talent, at the International Center on the School for International Training campus, 1 Kipling Rd. When Afghan refugees arrived in Brattleboro two years ago, the U.S. government provided funding for legal fees. "However, newly arrived refugees from other countries, such as Eritrea, the Congo, and Yemen, do not have that financial support,"
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