BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Independent Media (VIM), publisher of The Commons, has purchased The Deerfield Valley News, a...
BRATTLEBORO-With this month's effective end to the state's motel voucher program on July 1, a...
BRATTLEBORO-The annual Brattleboro Goes Fourth! parade on July 4 featured plenty of vehicles from all...
BRATTLEBORO-When the Vermont Legislature adjourned on June 16, it had run more than a month...
The state has refined application guidelines for the fledgling economic development program designed to help businesses and nonprofits create jobs. Created last year, the Windham County Economic Development Program looks to help revive the county's economy in the wake of losing high-wage jobs from the closure of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. At a Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce luncheon on April 15, Gov. Peter Shumlin made his goals for the program funding clear - jobs, jobs, and more jobs.
The Windham County Heat Fund has completed its ninth year of funneling money from very generous Windham County residents to local people in need of an emergency Band-Aid of fuel assistance. Donors, including 110 individuals, 15 businesses, grant funders, and those participating in one public event, raised a record $50,326 for the fund. The fund helped approximately 100 families, paying for $47,318 in fuel. Some of those 100 families were helped twice because of unusual circumstances. We all know that...
On Saturday, Nov. 8, Sounds True recording artist Yofiyah brings her Kabbalah Kirtan ensemble to the Vermont Jazz Center at the Cotton Mill. Kabbalah Kirtan is a unique fusion of Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Indian melodies with audience participation via call-and-response singing, along with instrumental accompaniment. “Kabbalah Kirtan brings a musical experience that joyously celebrates 'da'at d'vekut,' or union with the oneness of all.” explains Yofiyah. In advance materials, organizers noted that “Revered Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi [has] called Yofiyah...
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