Tom Schiedler shows that one is never too old to learn about and appreciate a new art form. Thank you for making me look in a different way.
Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
The bottom line: Property taxes for 2020 could rise by 3 cents per $100 of assessed value, “a higher number than we intended or hoped for,” said Town Manager Peter B. Elwell. That's because of unanticipated insurance costs, offset in part by increasing revenues from rooms and meals tax. Budget season is underway, and at the Nov. 6 regular Selectboard meeting, Elwell presented the board with a fiscal year 2020 budget season preview, noting that “our work is ahead of...
We have been reading and hearing a lot about dams lately. All in the news recently: the rehabilitation of the Bennington dams, the proposed purchase of the 14 hydroelectric sites by Green Mountain Power, the ongoing fuss about whether Vermont should buy the hydroelectric dams in the main Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers, the recent removals of two dams from the Wells River and one from the Third Branch of the White River. More than 1,000 active and remnant dams remain...
How little does it take to put on a Shakespeare play effectively? Actor and writer Alex Hacker of Analog Players thinks a stellar production can be done with the simplest of resources. On Thursday, Aug. 22, at 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, Aug. 23 and 24, at 8 p.m., Analog Players brings to the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery a truly unique Shakespearean performance for two actors and two puppets, King Dick, a.k.a., Richard III. ”This will be a much...
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