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WHITINGHAM - The town is carrying out the waste reduction goals of their recently approved Solid Waste Implementation Plan. Visit http://www.whitinghamvt.org for the plan and to find answers to any recycling and proper disposal questions.
VERMONT - Each year many Vermonters experience a fall, yet only half will tell their health care provider. A fall can cause an injury and may result in hospitalization. A serious injury, especially for the elderly, can limit a person’s mobility and independence and increase social isolation,...

Joe Hedberg paints a fence as a member of Youth Services’ “Work Today” program.
BRATTLEBORO - “Work Today,” a fledgling Youth Services day-labor program piloted last summer, is expanding work sites beyond maintenance and project work for the town of Brattleboro in its final month of resumed operations.
Area businesses, nonprofits or property owners who need temporary...
VERMONT - The Samara Fund, a component fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, has awarded $38,000 in general operating support and project grants to nonprofit organizations in its 10th annual competitive grant round.
These nonprofits include the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, the New...
WEST DOVER - Certified Chimney Professionals announces that Sarah and Roscoe Shippee, owners of Scott’s Clean Sweep, have earned the Certified Master Chimney Technician designation.
The CMCT course consists of having a minimum of eight years experience and six years of past comprehensive...

Karen Horton, left, and Debbie Rathman dig in the community garden earlier this year. Photo courtesy Karen Horton
WILMINGTON - The Community Garden at Howe Farm expanded this year, adding more plots for the public to use and, for the first time, growing food specifically to donate to the community. Each week, the garden drops off produce at Twice Blessed, where a donation table sits outside for the community...
“This Ardent Flame”
The Wings of Freedom, Book Two  

Beth Kanell
Gale, 2021 This Ardent Flame” is the second volume of Beth Kanell’s three-part series, “The Wings of Freedom.”  Like the first volume, “The Long Shadow” (reviewed here in 2018), it concerns...
  10 years ago:
Hurricane Irene was downgraded to Tropical Storm Irene, but that didn’t stop it from pummeling the region, resulting in destruction and flooding in every Deerfield Valley town.  Within 48 hours after the initial response, a massive volunteer effort in the...

1A Coffee Roasters announced their glass jar initiative on Instagram in April with this photo of Chrystal Holt holding one of the jars and a copy of The Deerfield Valley News.
WILMINGTON - 1A Coffee Roasters, the coffee shop and roasting operation, has been named one of the winners of Oatly’s Big Idea Grants. The grant, which will total over $80,000, will be used to finance sustainability initiatives at the shop. 1A co-owner Brian Holt, who owns 1A with his wife...
WEST DOVER - Voices of Hope will be honoring “National Opioid Overdose Day” with a memorial service to be held Tuesday, August 31, 6 pm, at the West Dover Congregational Church, 104 Route 100.
Everyone whose life has been affected by substance misuse is invited to come to share photos,...

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