BRATTLEBORO — It's a sad day when a writer loses a job. I hope Pat Smith and Mike Fahar find meaningful work that will continue to contribute to their community.
Django Grace describes himself as an environmentalist, skier, chiller, and lifelong Brattleborian. He graduated from...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development...
WESTMINSTER WEST-My recent essay in The Commons revealed the unique position of Vermont as a...
Roger Allbee served as secretary of agriculture, farms, and markets for Vermont in the administration...
Vermont farmers are worried about what President Donald J. Trump's immigration policies may mean for the hundreds of Latino laborers who work on their farms. At a meeting on Feb. 17 at the Vermont Agricultural Business Economic Center, state Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts said the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets has been talking with the state and U.S. Labor Departments to figure out a strategy. According to the Vermont Migration Education program at the University of Vermont, about 1,000...
Ever since the Reagan administration, and probably before that, we have been subjected to the Republican/right-wing Democratic dismantling of the role of government in the lives of ordinary people. Progressive activists have spent decades struggling for the sort of country where ordinary people could have some agency at a time when the U.S. was becoming more of a playground for the wealthiest every year. It was abundantly clear that we would never be able to rely on Washington to use...
The Brattleboro Literary Festival continues its 20th anniversary year with Didi Jackson and her debut poetry collection, Moon Jar. Jackson will be in conversation with former Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord at the online gathering, which starts at 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 13. Moon Jar explores the life-altering and heart-rending loss of a husband in 2011 to suicide. In an effort to understand this unforeseen and inexplicable act, she maps with immense candor the emotional difficulty of continuing her...
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