In last week's “Here We Are” column, “Compassionate creativity everywhere,” Kali Quinn told interviewer Wendy O'Connell: “One of the pieces that I do actually looks at a local woman and friend, Rupa Cousins, and the end of her life.” The original broadcast was transcribed incorrectly, and the online version of this story has been corrected.
NEWFANE-The former office of John Morrison, a longtime broker with Barrett & Valley Associates Real...
DUMMERSTON-Vermont Theatre Company opens its 40th season with "An Evening of One Act Plays" at...
BRATTLEBORO-On Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m., the Latchis Theatre will ring again with the...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Women's Chorus (BWC) presents its fall concert, "We Toast the Days," on Nov.
An estimated 15,000 gallons of heating oil spilled from a tank at the Soundview Paper Company mill on Nov. 2, much of it entering Sacketts Brook, which flows into the Connecticut River. Authorities have thus far recovered more than 12,000 gallons of the sludgy No. 2 heating oil, according to Mike Nucci, an environmental analyst with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation spill team. He said he expected authorities to discover more of the missing oil when they excavate the...
Americans who object to wearing a mask, claiming it's an infringement on their civil rights, are not patriots no matter how many flags they pin to their lapels. The Bill of Rights enumerates our protected freedoms, but nowhere does it grant a citizen the right to harm others. Wearing a mask helps prevent the wearer from infecting others. The same goes for vaccines. Unlike masks, the vaccine protects the vaccinated individual from severe illness. But if people assert their individual...
Guilford Center Stage returns after a 3-year intermission with a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford. Performances are Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 7 at 2 p.m. Ian Hefele directs a cast from the tri-state region. A theatrical groundbreaker when it debuted in 1938, Our Town was written at the nearby MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and the town of Grover's Corners in...
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