Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
For years, local officials and energy-efficiency advocates have been working to nurture and promote a “green building” industry in Windham County. Those efforts have taken on new urgency with the shutdown of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. And officials recently announced - with a boost from federal funding - creation of a new Green Building Cluster Study to identify the county's strongest assets in environmentally friendly construction and renovation. But energy efficiency is just one aspect of what some...
In 1998, the Brattleboro Union High School Diversity Education program was started after a black baby doll was burned in the fire during a football game and a confederate flag was hung in the gym. Since then, the program's focus has been based on building a diverse-inclusive community that has become part of the fabric of the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union. Diversity and equity work - ignited out of necessity from the local community - has been supported by the...
The Nature Museum at Grafton presents the seventh annual Fairy House Festival on Saturday, Sept. 26, and Sunday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Local individuals, families, schools, libraries, and businesses are collecting pine cones, acorn caps, feathers, moss, and more to create small fairy houses, which will be placed along a forest foot path. Visitors to the Fairy House Festival will be able to create their own fairy dwellings in the gardens. Tour-goers may try face painting...
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