BRATTLEBORO — I am very sorry this happened, I really am. Nick Widomski sounds like a really remarkable young man.
But one does not just “find oneself” in the path of an oncoming train. There was a sidewalk going in the same direction not many yards away from the train bridge.
Please, everyone, do not play on the tracks or use them for a shortcut.
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...
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Five-year-old Nolan Goodnow just received a national Youth Hero Award for waking his sleeping family last December during this town's largest fire of the year. Now all the preschooler needs is a place to put it. Nolan was supposed to be in bed on Dec. 9, 2021 when he bounded out at 3:30 a.m., alerting everyone to the sound of beeping. His mother, Allison Gleason, first thought it was a plow truck in the parking lot, only to look outside...
We thank Randolph T. Holhut for his reportage on the Core Arts meeting of Dec. 15. We are all aware that arts organizations in Brattleboro are working hard for the good of all artists in the area. There are a few points I would like to add to the article. The Arts Council of Windham County (ACWC) is the only partner with the Town of Brattleboro for the National Endowment for the Arts' “Our Town” Grant. The ACWC is the...
This month, musician Kevin Parry celebrates 25 years hosting a weekly open mic event in Brattleboro. But, in claiming only a quarter century, Parry is being modest. “In the mid-80s I was involved with an open mic in Keene,” and when Parry moved to Brattleboro he decided, “let's do that here!" “In 1991 I sat down with John and Gillie, owners of The Mole's Eye, and Norman the bartender, and asked them if they could host,” Parry said. They agreed,
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