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...
Back Roads Food Co. has expanded operations at the historic Cotton Mill following a recent acquisition of additional office and warehouse space, the installation of industrial size bakery ovens, and upgrades in factory equipment and hardware. The company says technological improvements continue to streamline the manufacturing process as it strives to meet an ever-increasing demand for their products. “We practice calculated growth,” said co-owner Virginia Vogel in a news release. “We never want to generate sales and not be able...
I should have known better than to include, in my review of the new documentary Burned, a sentence with the word “accounting” in it. Specifically, the “faulty accounting” discovered by folks at Princeton University is that the carbon cost of cutting and chipping and transporting wood for biomass fuel is the only cost figured into the carbon accounting. Pollution from biomass burning smokestacks was not and is not being figured into the calculations. As Mary Boone, director of the Partnership...
The documentary Linefork, which depicts the daily life of legendary banjo player Lee Sexton in detail, will be screened in the Sanctuary at Epsilon Spires on Friday, Nov. 19, followed by a discussion with co-director Vic Rawlings. Linefork was recorded over three years in Sexton's hometown of Linefork, Ky., where he has lived on the same plot of land since his birth in 1927. The film forgoes traditional documentarian elements like voiceovers and talking heads in favor of prolonged shots...
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