Membership fees for Brattleboro Time Trade are $60 per year. The wrong amount was reported in the May 14 edition of The Commons.
The Windham County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) is attempting to change the way that local law...
HomeShare Vermont, a nonprofit that connects people with extra space in their homes to those...
ROCKINGHAM-Rural gardeners and farmers have long known that the common earthworm (also known as the...
EAST DUMMERSTON-A three-alarm fire on Aug. 16 has destroyed a Windham County agricultural landmark. A...
Rod McCullum has what you might call conflicting feelings about storage of spent nuclear fuel at Vermont Yankee. “The fuel will be safe here,” said McCullum, a senior director at the Nuclear Energy Institute. “The fuel shouldn't stay here.” By that, McCullum was saying he has full confidence in the safety of Vermont Yankee's planned dry cask storage system for the radioactive material. But he also was lamenting the lack of a long-term federal plan for moving that waste out...
Can you hear the {enspace}h{enspace}u{enspace}m{enspace} of my ancestors when my voice shakes as I speak in the room that wasn't designed for me? Can you hear the {enspace}h{enspace}u{enspace}m{enspace} of my ancestors on transatlantic slave ships rocking together in unison, calming their bodies, and defying all odds? Can you hear the {enspace}h{enspace}u{enspace}m{enspace} of my ancestors as I challenge your fragility and deep fear of being uncomfortable, even if it means the murder, incarceration, emotional dis-ease of my people? Can you hear...
On Wednesday, Oct. 12, from 6 to 10 p.m., the downtown arts venue Epsilon Spires continues its Food System Series of film screenings and pop-up dinners presented in partnership with the local organic microgreen farm Grateful Greens. This installment features a four-course dinner of regional, sustainably produced ingredients by the Brattleboro-based caterer Forage & Flourish, followed by a showing of the 2020 documentary Kiss the Ground. “My vision for this series is to bring awareness to what is going on...
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