CHARLOTTE — Resident Culture Brewing Co. is launching its full-service, specialty coffee shop in South End this weekend. That gourmet coffee bar opens at 7 a.m. on June 26 — and the brewery’s taproom will have extended operating hours with the coffee bar online. It’s the final piece of Resident Culture’s project at 332 W. Bland St.

Getting more food from small local farmers to hungry people benefits both groups, and a hefty federal grant is going to help. “I want to see money in local farmers’ pockets … and food in the coolers in my pantries, waiting for the end clients. This will help us increase that flow of local, high-nutrient-density food,” said Eileen Liponis, executive director of N.H. Food Bank, which will get $900,000 to purchase local food through a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant.

The Brattleboro Milk Plant was built as a farmers cooperative in 1921 on Putney Road near the Marina. Maple Farms Dairy began in 1946. Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — In 1920 a large portion of the Bradley farm north of the West River was purchased by the Windham County Cooperative Milk Producers Association.