Setting the goal: more households with workers

Kate Trzaskos, executive director of the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, center, listens to Brattleboro Regional Chamber of Commerce executive director Rachel Shields Ebersole. Photo by Randolph T. Holhut/The CommonsThis story by Virginia Ray was first published in The Commons on Nov. 4, 2026.BRATTLEBORO — When State Treasurer Mike Pieciak asked his father what he earned after moving to Brattleboro in 1970, the answer was $10,000 — about $80,000 in today’s dollars. On that salary, his fath