BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
Hundreds of volunteers fanned their way through Windham County on May 4 for Green Up Day, Vermont's statewide cleanup of litter along 13,000 miles of roadsides. Robin Rieske, who organized efforts in Brattleboro, said the details of this year's efforts won't be available for a few days, but the event's website (greenupvermont.org) says the one-day workforce numbers 22,500. Eli Coughlin-Galbraith observed that while driving between downtown Brattleboro and Bunker Farm in Dummerston, they “saw no fewer than three awesome teams...
With respect to the question of whether the $100,000 appropriated by Representative Annual Town Meeting for sustainability purposes be spent on a position or activities, I have perhaps a hypothetical question as to how Brattleboro approaches issues such as the following, which might give insight to the answer. On July 30, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded a $440,000 grant to the town to make critical water infrastructure improvements needed to support commercial development. The project,
Award-winning chef Erin Bevan, formerly of the Four Columns Inn and The Hermitage Inn, is coming to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, Aug. 26, at 6 p.m., offering a rare opportunity for guests to dine amid works of art currently on view in the museum's galleries. Diners will enjoy a four-course meal among the (1)upcycled plastic sculptures in "Aurora Robson: Human Nature Walk" and a table arrangement inspired by the still-life paintings in "Alec Egan: Drawing Room."
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