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BRATTLEBORO â State and local officials are mobilizing efforts to stave off the negative impact of Koffee Kupâs decision to shutter its Vermont operations, including the closure of its Brattleboro subsidiary, Vermont Bread Company, that eliminated more than 90 local jobs.
The closures were announced suddenly on Monday.
According to a Tuesday news release from Dorset Partners, which specializes in âturnaround management and acquisitions,â Koffee Kup had been struggling to make ends meet for the past four years.
âFor each of the last four years Koffee Kup has suffered substantial financial losses and was unable to find a way out of their troubles,â states the news release, which came from Jeff Sands, a âturnaroundâ specialist at Dorset Partners and the senior advisor in North America for American Industrial Acquisition Corporation, which acquired a majority of the shares of Koffee Kup on A
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BRATTLEBORO â State and local officials are mobilizing efforts to stave off the negative impact of Koffee Kupâs decision to shutter its Vermont operations, including the closure of its Brattleboro subsidiary, Vermont Bread Company, that eliminated more than 90 local jobs.
The closures were announced suddenly on Monday.
According to a Tuesday news release from Dorset Partners, which specializes in âturnaround management and acquisitions,â Koffee Kup had been struggling to make ends meet for the past four years.
âFor each of the last four years Koffee Kup has suffered substantial financial losses and was unable to find a way out of their troubles,â states the news release, which came from Jeff Sands, a âturnaroundâ specialist at Dorset Partners and the senior advisor in North America for American Industrial Acquisition Corporation, which acquired a majority of the shares of Koffee Kup on A
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MONTPELIER â Members of the Vermont Senate will spend some time with educators from the Vermont Human Rights Commission and Outright Vermont in the aftermath of comments made during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month â including a racially insensitive comment made by Sen. Jeanette White, for which she later apologized.
Bor Yang, the executive director of the Vermont Human Rights Commission, said Balint and House Speaker Jill Krowinski reached out more than a month ago for a follow-up to training provided earlier this year by her and Xusana Davis, the stateâs executive director of racial equity.
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This Saturday at Representative Town Meeting (RTM), town reps in Brattleboro will have a chance to take a simple step to make our town government more inclusive and accessible. Will we take that opportunity?
The Brattleboro Select Board is a powerful body that makes important decisions that impact everyone who lives, works, uses resources, and travels in Brattleboro; however, the job itself is accessible only to a minority of the population. Select Board members make either $3,000 or $5,000/year for a sizable amount of work that seems to only be increasing.
This makes it challenging and near impossible for anyone with a low paying or minimum wage job, or with a lot of student debt, or with a lot of dependents they are responsible for â such as children or elders â to join the Select Board. This is a clear and easily corrected example of how poor and working class people are excluded from Brattleboroâs local polit
BRATTLEBORO Pedestrians will have to find another way to cross the Whetstone Brook after the footbridge between the Brattleboro Food Co-op and the Preston Lot was closed Monday morning.