PUTNEY-Beloved children's book author and illustrator Eileen Christelow told The Commons she saved her illustrations...
BRATTLEBORO-Class, a play by Irish playwrights Iseult Golden and David Horan, gets its U.S. premiere...
BRATTLEBORO-118 Elliot presents a special showing and conversation with the artists of "Fueled by Love:
BRATTLEBORO-Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) and the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will host...
Begun in 1970 to clean the roadsides of the interstate highways, Vermont's statewide Green Up Day has since expanded to a general clean up of roadsides, streams, vacant lots - wherever accumulated trash is an eyesore or, worse yet, an environmental hazard. Windham County Green Up committee volunteers have already begun arranging meeting sites, putting up posters, making provision for refreshments for volunteers, and attending to myriad details for this year's effort. Burton Touch Free Car Wash & Detailing and...
With the battle over the Affordable Care Act in the news, I have been troubled by the vigor with which we are trying to save it. Although the ACA could be seen as a breakthrough in “health care” for the United States, I see it as bolstering the insurance game we're already playing. The ACA guarantees a profit for the insurance industry. We are forced to pay a penalty if we don't sign up. We are told that we are...
Twilight Music continues its 19th Twilight on the Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, zydeco, Celtic, rock, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, July 3, with zydeco sextet Planet Zydeco. Co-presented with Next Stage Arts Project, the four-concert series continues on Sundays, July 17 (Cary Morin), and July 31 (The Stockwell Brothers). All concerts begin at 6 p.m. in downtown Putney on the Putney Tavern lawn (bring a lawn chair or blanket) or at Next Stage at 15 Kimball...
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