BRATTLEBORO — Great coverage of a terrific event! Thank you to the Brattleboro Chamber, and specifically to Kate O'Connor and Greg Lesch, for all of their hard work on the recent governor's debate!
Tim Kipp, a political activist since the 1960s, is a retired history and political science...
WESTMINSTER-A few days ago, I texted some of my family members to call their representatives...
BRATTLEBORO-There has been an unrelenting assault on our culture and our country since the inauguration...
TOWNSHEND-Several weeks ago, a Peruvian fisherman, stranded in the ocean for months, was miraculously found...
Ask Kathy Urffer whether she has some big shoes to fill, and she'll laugh and say, “absolutely.” That's because the Brattleboro resident has been hired by Connecticut River Conservancy to succeed David Deen, a highly-regarded expert who retired after 19 years as a river steward for Vermont and New Hampshire. But that challenge doesn't dampen Urffer's enthusiasm. She brings her own environmental experience to the steward job, and she also expects to work closely with many other river advocates both...
SAXTONS RIVER-Main Street Arts, 35 Main St., presents Once In the Time of Trolls, with performances on Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, March 8, at 2 and 7 p.m. Directed by Trish Roberts, Once in the Time of Trolls is a comedy written by Sandra Fenichel Asher, appropriate for all ages, that folds together four classic Norwegian folktales: East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Gudbrand, The Squire's Bride, and The Three Aunts. In this...
I grew up in a tiny New England town known for attracting the odd violent hurricane. One of my earliest experiences of a power outage was during Hurricane Gloria in the 1980s. We basically camped in our own house, tried to wash our clothes with any water we could find and cooked on the neighbor's gas stove (ours was electric). The memory of that time has been indelible - how quickly we went from living comfortably to roughing it -
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