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)
The May 26 filing deadline has passed and the field are now set for the Aug. 9 Democratic and Republican party primaries in Vermont. The most noticeable thing that voters are seeing is how many members of the Vermont Legislature are not seeking re-election in 2022. In all, 10 of Vermont's 30 senators and 41 of 150 members of the House taking a pass on seeking another term. Reps. John Gannon, D-Wilmington, Carolyn Partridge, D-Windham, and Sen. Jeanette White, D-Windham,
In late May, the Marlboro College Board of Trustees announced the sale of the campus in Marlboro to Democracy Builders, a charter school incubator. This transaction may be finalized in mid-June unless Attorney General T. J. Donovan intervenes; the sale of the campus is necessary to complete the closure of this small Vermont college. All assets, archives, and its valuable collections will be dispersed despite alumni opposition and donor intent. Faculty emeriti, alumni, neighbors, and supporters of the college immediately...
Friends of Music at Guilford's 10th annual celebration of Women in Music begins at 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, and salutes Katherine Faulkner “Kay” Swift (1897-1993). Swift was a classically trained composer who became George Gershwin's trusted musical advisor and companion. After Gershwin (1898-1937) encouraged her to compose popular music, Swift became the first woman to write a hit Broadway musical, Fine and Dandy (1930), now the borrowed title for FOMAG's gala. Some of both genres of music will...
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