Windham Southeast Supervisory Union will again sponsor its Summer Food Service Program this summer to all children, without charge regardless of income or residence.
Children and families are invited to a kick-off event on Monday, June 25, at Living Memorial Park Pool, where children and adults can eat for free from noon to 1 p.m. Free passes to the pool will be given with the meal.
Throughout the summer, the program will offer free meals to those18 years of age or younger, first come, first served. No sign-ups or eligibility paperwork are required.
• Academy School, Monday through Thursday, July 9 to Aug. 2; breakfast, 8:15-8:45 a.m., lunch, noon to 12:30 p.m.
Professional puppeteer Shoshana Bass will lead a Puppet Camp at Main Street Arts beginning Monday, June 25. The five-day camp will meet from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day and is for ages 8 to 12. Participants will build a variety of simple puppets of different sizes, embellish...
Early registration for the Southern Vermont Dance Festival, scheduled for July 19 to 22, is now open. Early registration allows everyone to get the classes that they want before they sell out. Advance tickets for all the performances are on sale, including the Midsummer Night's Picnic and Promenade, which...
The Brattleboro Music Center Madrigal Singers, directed by Douglas Frank, present a selection of the greatest hits of love, sex, and popular music that have endured over 400 years in a performance Sunday, June 24. “Magical Madrigals & More: Love, Sex and Popular Music from the Renaissance” is set for 2 p.m. at the BMC, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, with a reception tea following. Tickets are $10 general admission and $15 for sponsors. Call the BMC at 802-257-4523 for ticket...
A horse of another color is coming to Main Street Arts with a cutting-edge production of Peter Shaffer's Equus opening Thursday, June 28, for a two-weekend run. This story of a deranged youth who has blinded six horses with a metal spike took critics and the public alike by storm and is now considered a modern classic. Playwright Shaffer (who also wrote Amadeus ) weaves a psychological thriller that explores topics ranging from repressed sexuality to the spiritual decay of...
Join the “Libraries Rock!” Summer Challenge in the Children's Room at Brooks Memorial Library. Kids earn points to win prizes by attending library events, completing the weekly discovery station, and, of course, reading. Prizes will be awarded once 25 points have been earned. Each child can earn multiple prizes over the course of the challenge. Prizes include free books, prize packs, gift certificates to local eateries and stores, and passes to fun activities. Parents can earn a bonus point for...
College news • William Capitani of Dover received a B.A. in economics with honors from the University of Chicago on June 9. Capitani was a four-year member of the varsity football team and was awarded the Order of the “C” membership and blanket for achieving three varsity letters while at the university. He is also an active member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and was recognized as a University of Chicago Odyssey Scholar. He has taken a position with...
Death café returns to Brattleboro BRATTLEBORO - Brattleboro Area Hospice will host a death café at the Avenue Grocery, 82 Western Ave, on Thursday, June 21, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. This free event, part of an international movement begun in Europe, is dedicated to “taking death out of the closet in order to discuss it publicly,” organizers write. “A death café is not a support group, a counseling session, or even a workshop,” they explain. “It is a simple...
At the Bellows Falls Fish Ladder Visitor Center, salmon and sea lampreys swim by every summer. But even more treasures are hidden beneath the waves, ripples, and pools of the Connecticut River: historical artifacts, shipwrecks, and Native American petroglyphs (rock carvings). The center guides visitors of all ages through the ecology of the river and its habitats and learn about the fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and birds who live here. Visitors can walk below the water level and watch the...
This year marks the 17th anniversary of the Garden Tour, an event that has become a major fundraiser for Westminster Cares. This year's Tour will be held the weekend of June 30 and July 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. The 2018 Tour will feature the gardens of Gordon and Mary Hayward; Julie Moir Messervy; Lonnie and Obe Lisai; and a “sculpture garden” by Joshua Gold Pottery in Westminster West. Special events planned for this year are:
At their regular meeting on June 12, the Selectboard unanimously voted to warn a Special Town Meeting for July 19. Although Dollar General has inspired this Special Town Meeting, opponents of the chain discount store's plans to build on the site of Lawrence's Smoke House might be too late to stop the development. With a purchase-and-sale contract signed by the owner of the parcel, unless Dollar General backs out because of contingencies like floodplain regulations, the project will move forward.
Good day to you, southern Vermonters! This past Monday was certainly a dynamic and severe weather day. Several wall clouds and funnel clouds were reported in Northampton, Granby, and Belchertown, Mass., and Durham, N.H., and an EF-0 tornado touched down in northern New Hampshire! There were also multiple wind damage reports around Windham County. Anyway, it was a rough day, and we got very lucky that tornadoes didn't actually touch down in Windham County! The next seven days looks much...
The new Brattleboro Music Center has won an award from the American Institute of Architects. The building on Blanche Moyse Way was honored with an AIA Maine Award for Design Excellence at the annual meeting of AIA Maine on May 16. A jury of five architects awarded the BMC project a “Citation Award for Adaptive Reuse” with the following comments: “This project is a great example of how to do more with less to elevate the function and mission of...
Landmark College will present a free talk by Vermont artist Jean Cherouny on Sunday, June 24, at 7:30 p.m., in the Brooks M. O'Brien auditorium, located in the East Academic Building. Cherouny's talk, entitled “A Gliding Artform,” is open to the public and will describe how learning differences influenced her career and life trajectory, as illustrated by her journey to become a successful artist, entrepreneur, and world traveler. Connecticut native Jean Cherouny first came to Vermont to attend Landmark College...
Part of the unwritten code of being a professional photographer is to freely share your knowledge with your colleagues and be humble enough to acknowledge that there are people who are more talented than you. I've done a lot of news and sports photography over the past eight years at The Commons, but I feel I've yet to take my best photo. And I certainly need a lot more work before I can produce the sort of sports portraits that...
Casey Bozetarnik, retired from a long career as a teacher, guidance counselor, and principal, describes himself as a man who loves “working with kids who have emotional and behavioral issues, or when they are just like a round peg in a square hole.” And now he and his wife, Pat, are reaching back to generations of the families he touched in his education career, hoping to find a volunteer candidate to match him with a healthy kidney. Last October's diagnosis...
The NewBrook Elementary School staff and students have many reasons for a party: a new solar array, a $15,000 farm-to-school grant, a new chef in the cafeteria, and the retirement of two beloved staff members. Rather than holding multiple celebrations, school officials put them all together, added a big outdoor luncheon, and invited the greater community to join them. On June 12, the school's students, faculty, and staff, local business owners, and members of the School Board and the Parent-Teacher...
Rutland journalist Yvonne Daley didn't know she was receiving her latest assignment when a friend sent her a book about the 1960s and 1970s counterculture in the high desert of New Mexico. “You should write this story in Vermont,” came the suggestion tucked alongside. Daley seems the perfect candidate: She not only has penned five books and four decades of articles for publications ranging from her local Rutland Herald to Time and People magazines but also knows the counterculture firsthand,
In one nation, the president runs a national security apparatus that regularly assassinates journalists who oppose his regime, along with ex-spies who defected and some ambassadors who knew too much. In another country, its leader is said to have fed alive some of his enemies to starved dogs and to have used anti-aircraft guns in a firing squad on an airport landing field. He dispatched two young women from another country to put deadly poison on the gloves they wore...
A fire in October 2015 destroyed the barn on the historic Taft Farm in Townshend of Robert DuGrenier, a sculptor who works primarily in glass, metal, and marble. “I was awakened at 3:10 in the morning by a dog barking,” says DuGrenier. “Looking out our window, my wife commented 'What a beautiful sunrise.'” But it was no sunrise. The DuGrenier 1810 barn was on fire. “Not only was that building totally destroyed, but also much of what was in the...
The Putney Huddle, ACLU People Power - Windham County, and Rights & Democracy VT will host a forum on Wednesday, June 27, at 6 p.m., for the three Democratic candidates vying for the two seats in the Windham-4 district. The debate will take place in the common room at Putney Meadows, 17 Carol Brown Way. It will be moderated by Julia Ronconi, organizer of Indivisible Brattleboro. Newcomers Nader Hashim and Cindy Jerome will join incumbent Mike Mrowicki to take questions...
I inherited a violin and music (“Estrellita - Mexican Serenade”) from my great-uncle Russel Hayes in Pennsylvania, a fiddler who I knew only when I was a baby. My father, Paul August Andreas Schulz, taught us many old two-part German songs in Gräfelfing, near Munich. We sang on all our hikes “Wach Nachtigall” and “Meins Herzens Schöne.” We sang rounds: “Sitzt a kloans Vogerl,” “Es Tönen die Lieder,” “Rosenstock, Holder,” “Dat Du Meen Levter Bist.” My mother, Ellen Russel Hayes,