BRATTLEBORO — Visit our slide show of photos from the 2013 Strolling of the Heifers parade, which took place June 8.
BRATTLEBORO — Visit our slide show of photos from the 2013 Strolling of the Heifers parade, which took place June 8.
BRATTLEBORO-An achievement that has been decades in the making is about to finally happen with...
BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...
PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...
BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...
Wendy Harrison has announced her candidacy for one of two soon-to-be vacant Windham County state Senate seats. She is running as a Democrat in the Aug. 9 primary. Harrison has more than 30 years of local government experience and “a passion for working together with everyone in the community to address challenges and seize opportunities.” “We can solve our problems from the ground up, as long as the process is inclusive,” she says. “I am committed to identifying barriers and...
Despite Governor Scott's $8 million commitment to restoring Vermont's waterways and funding clean water initiatives in his recent budget proposal, representatives in the Vermont Legislature have so far failed to live up to their responsibilities to help ensure we all have clean water. The budget passed by the House has stripped the governor's $8 million for clean water and spent the money elsewhere. We hope this choice was made because the Legislature plans to identify a new source of funding...
On Dec. 15 at 4 and 7:30 p.m., and Dec. 16 at 3 p.m., Sandglass Theater will present its annual Crankie Weekend, showcasing the mystique and low-tech charm of pairing song and story with rolling pictures. Crankies are scrolling illustrations, wound inside a wooden box and then hand-cranked so that the images move across a viewing screen. Once called “moving panoramas,” crankies were as close as it got to films in the early 19th century. Recently, crankies have made a...
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