The Korean band Leenalchi will play at the Drake in Amherst on Halloween. The concert starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $28. A video of the band is at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldO3cpyy55g
In 2022, Valley Post editor Eesha Williams and his wife, organic vegetable farmer Elizabeth Wood, worked on farms in Korea. They wrote this article about their experience:
www.mofga.org/stories/community/organic-farming-in-south-korea
Gyedu Blay Ambolley and Sekondi Band will play at the Drake in Amherst on Saturday, September 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance. Most people in the audience will dance, some will sit, according to the Drake web site. A video of a concert by Gyedu Blay Ambolley and Sekondi Band is at:
Some of the 16,000 people who marched and rallied in Brattleboro,
Keene, Greenfield and Northampton on March 28 will attend a No Kings march on Saturday, September 12 at 10 a.m., rain or shine. If at least 1,000 people show up (estimated by the organizers), they will march in the street (not on the sidewalk), otherwise on the sidewalk: from the park that is directly between the Brattleboro food co-op and the Brattleboro art museum to the area of the library.
Freedom came on September 3 for the five people arrested by ICE on August 7 in Londonderry, Vermont. Londonderry is in Windham county. So is Brattleboro. The Valley Post appears to be the first news outlet to report this news.
The Valley Post will cease publication in the spring of 2027 because founder and editor Eesha Williams will move to Europe. Williams and his wife, organic vegetable farmer Elizabeth Wood, plan to settle in Absam, Austria, or another nearby vegetable-growing village. More information is at:
https://mountaintimes.info/2022/03/23/vermont-veggie-farmers-embark-on-s...
The Valley Post thanks the many people who have donated and volunteered over the 17 years since the news outlet was founded in 2009.
Valvoline Corp. paid its CEO just under $5 million in the most recent fiscal year, according to its SEC filing. The company is building an oil change facility next door to Brattleboro's beloved, locally-owned, Fletcher's Auto Repair. Across the street is the Home Depot and its vast parking lot, both of which have been vacant for nearly two decades thanks to a locally-organized boycott. The beloved, Vermont-owned, Brown and Roberts hardware store is thriving on Main street. Lumber is available at two locally-owned sawmills in Brattleboro and from deconstructed vacation homes at Renew Salvage.
Some of the 16,000 people who marched and rallied in Brattleboro,
Keene, Greenfield and Northampton on March 28 will attend a No Kings march on Saturday, September 12 at 10 a.m., rain or shine. If at least 1,000 people show up (estimated by the organizers), they will march in the street (not on the sidewalk), otherwise on the sidewalk: from the park that is directly between the Brattleboro food co-op and the Brattleboro art museum to the area of the library.
Masked secret police terrorizing our communities; an illegal,
catastrophic war putting us in danger and driving up our costs;
Northampton resident and state senator Joanne Comerford supports a Dark Skies bill that was approved by the state senate last month, her spokeswoman told the Valley Post on August 10. An Arizona-based group that has a web site at www.DarkSky.org says, “Since 1988, we’ve been advocating for more responsible outdoor lighting, raising awareness about light pollution, and protecting the night sky. DarkSky has protected 160,000 square kilometers of land and night sky.”
One goal is better stargazing.
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When N.L. Dennis was singing in a recording studio with Toots and the Maytals, Bob Marley stopped by to listen. Marley praised Dennis's delivery. Today, Dennis lives in his native Jamaica and joins hundreds of Jamaicans who come to Vermont every summer in search of better paying work. Most of them work on vegetable farms and at apple orchards. Dennis works as a reggae musician.
On August 9 at 11:30 a.m., Dennis and the Thunderballs will play at the Putney Farmers' Market near Brattleboro.
On August 7 in Londonderry, Vermont, ICE arrested five people. Londonderry is in Windham county. So is Brattleboro. The news was first reported by the Vermont group Migrant Justice.
In Brattleboro, outside the main post office on July 25, more than 100 people “gathered to pay tribute to the lives of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastian Guerrero, killed this month by ICE agents,” organizer Mary Moriarty told the Valley Post by email on July 26. She did not immediately reply to an email sent on August 8. The Valley Post will update this article when Moriarty replies.