TOWNSHEND — If you were at the Bellows Falls Village Meeting, it was obvious the 2-to-1 margin of the budget vote was all firefighters who voted that budget back in - and only a handful of citizens.
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this...
Steev Lynn works internationally, currently reporting on the civil war in Myanmar after a military...
CAVENDISH-It's crucial to address the underlying motivations behind this opposition about HCRS's use of AI...
The writer is a member of the Putney Housing Solutions Task Force, a community group...
The Brattleboro Music Center outgrew its Walnut Street location decades ago, but only last week did the 63-year old organization actualize a dream and sign a purchase agreement for a property on Guilford Street. Next steps like inspections and permitting have begun at the property, currently owned by the Winston Prouty Center for Child Development, and the BMC has started raising funds for the prospective relocation. The Prouty Center announced earlier this month that it submitted a purchase and sale...
For many years, I worked in the oft-maligned hospitality service jobs of the Deerfield Valley region, jobs that allowed me to make a decent living with maximum flexibility while I had small children. The last service industry job I had was as a waitress at Dot's Restaurant. This was a very busy, and therefore fairly lucrative job a few days a week, allowing me maximum time with my three young children. My interest in economic development began there. Folks treasure...
Twilight Music begins its 19th Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of folk, world beat, zydeco, rock, and bluegrass summer concerts on Sunday, June 19, with roots and world music quintet The Gaslight Tinkers. Co-presented with Next Stage Arts Project, the four-concert series continues on Sundays. The Gaslight Tinkers' blend of global rhythms creates what organizers call “a joyous world beat sound around a core of traditional New England old time and Celtic fiddle music, merging boundless positive energy with...
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