BRATTLEBORO-George Stone Sr., closing in on his 101st birthday, is one of the last members...
-On a Sunday night, Kelsey Rice found her abuser at her home again, out on...
BRATTLEBORO-The cause of the March 26 fires that temporarily displaced 126 at the School of...
BRATTLEBORO-Caz Clark is the safety and outreach manager at the Brattleboro Food Co-op, a position...
Like many men of his generation, Jay Karpin went off to war. Born in 1924, he enlisted in the Army Air Force the day after he graduated from Hicksville High School on Long Island in 1942, and he went through months of training to become a bombardier and navigator. He was assigned to the 493rd Bombardment Group, the last bomb group of the famed Eighth Air Force to become operational in Europe. And that is how the 493rd's - and...
Brattleboro Music Center's groundbreaking on Guilford Street started with a fanfare and ended with a group photograph. Between musical interludes, Johann Sebastian Bach acted as master of ceremonies. The music center turns 40 this year, and its trustees and staff have labored on and off for about 20 years to find a new classroom and performance facility. Earlier this year, the organization announced its purchase of the former Winston Prouty Center building off Guilford Street. The Prouty Center moved its...
It started late that night hearing about the fires in California. I put some more logs in the fireplace at our home in Vermont and I sat there in shock, staring at the flames, thinking of my sister and her husband out in Malibu. Fire. I imagined the worse for the animals. My sister texted me to say that she and her husband were at Zuma Beach near their home. She said she was busy helping, walking a horse. I...
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