BRATTLEBORO-The Henrik Ibsen drama An Enemy of the People will lead audiences to question "the...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will head to Windham County to present two cutting-edge music presentations...
BRATTLEBORO-Throughout the month of April, River Gallery School will exhibit "Places We Know: Local Landscapes...
BRATTLEBORO-ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., is supporting the Vermont Reads community program by...
Windham County State's Attorney Tracy Kelly Shriver has retired in the middle of her four-year term after 25 years of service. Shriver - who graduated from Vermont Law School in 1995, became a deputy Windham County prosecutor in 1999, and assumed her most recent position in 2007 - wrote a letter to Gov. Phil Scott last Wednesday reporting she would be stepping down effective this past Sunday, July 28. "As the years have passed, I have seen lots of changes...
The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites everyone to join them on Friday, Sept. 9, at 5 p.m., when their monthly online Literary Cocktail Hour presents writer and critic Maud Newton, who will discuss her debut book, Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation. Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's father, who came of age in Texas during the Great Depression, was said to have married 13 times and been shot by one of...
In spring 2020, when COVID-19 became a daily threat, I quoted to myself the fragment of a verse from Psalms, recalled from Sunday School days in Tennessee: “he that hath clean hands and a pure heart.” I timed myself one day: From getting up in the morning and including trips to the bathroom at night, I washed my hands 21 times and used a hand sanitizer five times. I had clean hands and hoped I had a pure heart. Eventually,
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