You know you love them. Here are the official write-in results for last week's Vermont primary.

PRIMARY ELECTION
AUGUST 24, 2010

US SENATOR

Democratic Party
Len Britton, 1; Peter Gailbrath, 1; Mark Zwickfer, 1.

Everyone knows the Internet can be a powerful tool for growing and marketing a small business, but many don’t know where to begin or how to make it work for them.

Hours are wasted ‘trying to figure things out’, and valuable business is lost by missing out on the rich marketing opportunities the Internet offers to small and local businesses.

Brattleboro residents Lisa McCormick and Julian McBrowne, two local artists who actively use the Internet as their primary marketing tool, announce their new consulting service, Growing Your Business Online.

Musicians, healers and teachers can discover new power in music and enhance the quality of their lives and their work during a weekend of sound exploration workshops, Sept. 10 to 12, at Mahalo Art Center.

The new bridge over the Whetstone near the old Creamery Bridge is now open for traffic.

I respond to the Opinion of James Douglas published on Sept. 1 in the Rutland Herald : A responsible use of federal money. The $13 trillion dollars in debt is a misleading concept when money gets into circulation only as debt. Indicative of the scam that has been perpetrated on a public who has been taught and molded to think of money as a tangible item, money is only accounting.

All of our money is fiat, backed only by faith. We live under an accounting system that benefits the banks . This includes creating money through an accounting entry as both a liability and an asset, and not creating the interest that is expected. Therefore, we are perpetually caught in a game of musical money chairs.

When we bought our home in '98 all the appliances were Kenmore - the previous occupants having worked for Sears. They were unspectacular but sturdy appliances, some that atrocious avocado color many boomers have come to loath.

6 years ago something on the dishwasher broke.

We'd already had the experience of failing to find a repairman for other Sears stuff. With no other option (after doing due diligence with Consumer Reports) we bought a new dishwasher for $400. It was a Maytag and came with good recommendations from C.R.

The U.S. Drought Monitor, as you might expect after a week of hot sun, continues to indicate that Brattleboro and most of Windham County are still "Abnormally Dry" areas. We first got this distinction in late July.

Here's what they are saying about the Northeast in general: "The Northeast: Heavy rain lingered along the southern New England coast through August 25. In eastern Massachusetts, the Blue Hill Observatory reported an August 22-25 total of 7.59 inches. The coverage of abnormal dryness (D0) was reduced in southern New England, but significant rain again bypassed northern Maine.

On one hand, one must stoutly eschew the detestable, constricted superficiality of Facebook and texting; on the other side, at the risk of being ignored oneself, does one not take into account the characteristic rapidity and abbreviation that have become the norm of modern written communications. The fact is that people feel strongly that they have "no time" for reading lengthy messages.

Twilight Music presents newgrass and contemporary folk trio The Stockwell Brothers on Friday, September 3 in the seventh concert of the eighth annual Twilight on the Tavern Lawn series. This final concert of the folk, world beat, funk, blues, jazz, zydeco, Celtic, swing and bluegrass music series begins at 6:30 pm in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at The United Church of Putney (15 Kimball Hill) in case of rain. The series is sponsored by the Town of Putney, Soundesign Recording Studio, Putney Food Co-Op, Putney Paper Company, The Stockwell Brothers and many other Putney businesses and organizations. The concert is free to the public (donations are accepted) and food will be available. For information, visit www.twilightmusic.org or call 802-387-5772.

On Wednesday, September 8, at 7pm in the meeting room of the Brook's Memorial Library in downtown Brattleboro, author and poet, Rodger Martin will read selections from his just published second collection of poetry, "The Battlefield Guide." The book focuses on the major battles of the Civil War: Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, and Antietem. Ideal for Civil War buffs who like poetry, as well. Free and open to the public.

Does anyone know if the Belle of Brattleboro is still around? I tried calling the number listed on the internet and it's not in service. Any info would be of help. TIA

In Observance of Labor Day, all Town Offices will be closed on Monday, September 6, 2010, with the exception of emergency services.

Brooks Memorial Library will be closed on Monday, September 6, 2010.

Beeline Bus WILL NOT be running on Monday, September 6, 2010.

The Beeline will run on its normal schedule on Saturday and Sunday, September 4 and September 5, 2010.

Butoh: an avante garde form of ritualistic performance art, generated from post WWII Japan in response to American imperialism and westernization of the country. Butoh comes from subversive modern dancers of Japanese heritage, who created works "against dance" and more on the intrinsic nature of human emotion depicted through movement and facial expression.

A great deal of physical theatre buffs use this form to construct their knowledge of the body's simplist expressions into a more demonstrative performative art. It is storytelling through the body but not just in this form. It also focuses on meditation, mind/body somatics, and the element of movement in itself.

Mahalo Art Center will present a sound healing concert featuring Luz Elena Morey and friends at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11. The concert is offered by donation, with $20 suggested to benefit programming for both adults and children at Mahalo Art Center.