PUTNEY-Emma Paris is a creative force. The 19-year-old from Putney has been named Youth Poet...
They threw her in Yellowstone to save it– to control the deer, work unpaid, change...
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-In Donald Margulies's Collected Stories - the latest production of Actors Theatre Playhouse...
MARLBORO-Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal and guitarist Jason Ennis present a selection of music from the...
School Superintendent Lyle Holiday loves education. Politics? Not her happy place. “It was a very hard decision,” said Holiday of her recent decision to retire from the role of superintendent after three years serving the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU). She leaves her job on June 30. “I want to be right up front: I love my job and I love the people that I work with - the teachers, the administrators, and the staff - that has really been...
Fantastic Wantastiquet, a new, multidisciplinary arts and cultural festival, opens Saturday, Sept. 16, at 2 p.m., when singer/songwriter and indigenous-rights activist Lyla June Johnston will headline a gala keynote gathering at the Latchis Theatre. “Other special guests still-to-be-confirmed will join Johnston at this gala, many of whom will be traveling from afar, as excitement in Brattleboro grows for our first Indigenous People's Day activities in early October,” says John Wilmerding, the Fantastic Wantastiquet founder and organizer. Johnston is a musician,
What happens when you're a 99-year-old World War II vet, a retired union worker and teacher, a father, a grandfather, a beloved member of the community, a holder of two health-insurance policies, and you fall, breaking both arms? You are thrown out on the street because your vitals are stable so your insurance won't kick in. Welcome to the world we have fallen into - one of the growing gaps in our health-care system. But also one that brings into...
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