BRATTLEBORO-Under a slate gray sky with a cold wind sweeping across the Town Common, approximately...
JAMAICA-A 85–56 vote on Jan. 14 to keep Jamaica Village School open will affect the...
DUMMERSTON-The future of children's offerings at Lydia Taft Pratt Library will be a whole lot...
BRATTLEBORO-Three candidates have expressed interest in being appointed to the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD)
January is the month when Vermonters pore over the seed catalogs and dream wistfully about how their flower and vegetable gardens will grow in the coming year. And, for more than 60 years, one of the determining factors for which annuals and perennials will survive in Vermont is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map. The map assigns a zone number to an area, reflecting the average annual extreme low temperature in an area over a 10-year period.
In mid-July of 1969, our twice-weekly house maid, Betty, told my mom that she would be going home to North Carolina for a few weeks. She said she would go to her “mama's grave - 'cause when those men land on the moon, that was going to be the end of the world.” “Betty and the moon landing” was a story members of my family told with some cosmopolitan amusement for some time when speaking about our childhood. In 1984,
The Brattleboro Literary Festival will host a free virtual Literary Cocktail Hour. The event, on Friday, July 17, at 5 p.m., will feature three mystery writers: Archer Mayor, Paula Munier, and Julia Spencer-Fleming. Archer Mayor is the locally-loved author of the Vermont-based Joe Gunther series. The Orphan's Guilt, the 31st book in the series, is forthcoming in September. Paula Munier is the creator of the Vermont-based Mercy and Elvis mystery series featuring former Army MP Mercy Carr and her retired...
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