Grace Cottage Family Health, 185 Grafton Rd., will offer a flu vaccine clinic on Saturday, Oct. 2, from 9 a.m. to noon. Registration is recommended (802-365-4331); walk-ins will be accommodated as space allows.
You do not need to be an established patient at Grace Cottage.
Masks are required, and anyone under 18 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
During the flu clinic, Grace Cottage will also host a food drive for the Townshend Food Shelf. If you can, bring a non-perishable food item.
As the third and final phase of Groundworks Collaborative's South Main Street capital project, the former Groundworks Drop-In Center at 60 South Main St. will be deconstructed this fall in preparation for a new building in its place. The design will allow for adequate space for Groundworks' growing program...
On Saturday, Oct. 2, a special presentation of the cult classic Phantom of the Paradise will take place at 8 p.m. in the Sanctuary of Epsilon Spires. “Fans of The Rocky Horror Picture Show will be delighted with this lesser-known rock opera influenced by works such as Faust and...
College news • Brianna Jobst of Vernon recently graduated with a degree in Business Administration/Management from Bloomsburg (Pa.) University. • Hana Kusumi of South Londonderry was named to the Dean's List for achieving academic excellence during the summer 2021 semester at St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. Kusumi is a member of the Class of 2023 and is majoring in government and philosophy. Transitions • The Grace Cottage Foundation Board of Directors welcomed Kevin Rogers and Travis Shine to the...
Our Place Drop-In Center will hold its annual Overflow the Opera House food drive on Friday, Oct. 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year's drive will be different due to COVID-19 restrictions, with the collected food loaded directly into trucks and taken to the food pantry at Our Place rather than hauled into the theater to fill every seat. Local radio personality Peter “Fish” Case has arranged a live broadcast on The Peak Radio in front of the...
Dominoes will dominate downtown for one weekend this fall, with two events celebrating the art and science of domino toppling: a film screening and the 14th annual Domino Toppling Extravaganza. Domino-toppling sensation Lily Hevesh will attend the screening of the documentary film Lily Topples the World, about her rise as an internationally recognized domino artist, on Saturday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre. Directed by Jeremy Workman, the film won the Grand Jury Award for documentary feature...
VIM hosts workshop to help local groups promote events BRATTLEBORO - Vermont Independent Media (VIM), nonprofit publisher of The Commons weekly newspaper, announces the return of its Media Mentoring Project, an initiative to assist area residents in building writing, journalism, and other media literacy skills. The first workshop, “Media Strategy for Events - Integrating Traditional Media with Social for Larger Impact,” will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m., via Zoom, with assistance from Brattleboro Community Television. Participants...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present singer/songwriter Dar Williams as part of the 2021 Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series, an outdoor, socially-distanced concert series, on Saturday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m., at Cooper Field on Sand Hill Road. Fellow singer/songwriter Crys Matthews opens the show. Known as much for her staunch progressive ideals as her raw acoustic energy, Dar Williams has been captivating audiences with elegance and honesty in her folk-pop songwriting since the 1990s. As described in...
The Windham County Humane Society (WCHS) will hold its 18th annual Walk for Animals at the Retreat Farm on Saturday, Oct. 9. Registration begins at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m., participants and their canine companions will walk a 2-mile loop through downtown. Social, well-behaved dogs who will enjoy the crowd are welcome to walk. All dogs must be leashed (no retractable dog leashes, please). According to the humane society, the event “leverages community support when participants ask friends, family, and...
Get the lowdown on Marked Man, the latest novel featuring fictional detective Joe Gunther on Saturday, Oct. 2 at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. Author Archer Mayor will be available to meet and greet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the plaza in front of the library. Copies of his 32nd mystery, will be available for sale and signing from Everyone's Books. In Marked Man, Mayor juggles several plotlines. A year after the death of affluent Nathan Lyon...
The Crowell Gallery at the Moore Free Library presents an exhibit by the Saxtons River Art Guild (SRAG) throughout October. An artist reception takes place on Saturday, Oct. 23 from 2 to 4 p.m. Refreshments will be served outside. Visitors will see a wide variety of media, style, and subject matter created by 14 members of the guild. Some artists included in the exhibit: • John Dimick, who has been drawing and sketching his entire life, took up watercolor when...
“I love having an idea and then making it happen,” photographer Chris Triebert says, sitting on the steps outside of the new Vermont Center for Photography on Green Street, which she designed and project-managed herself. “That's my probably my favorite thing in the world.” Making things happen seems to be second nature for Triebert, 70, who is having a 30-year retrospective of her work at the Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts gallery beginning on Friday, Oct. 1 and running through the month.
The poet W.H. Auden wrote in his poem “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” that “poetry makes nothing happen.” But it does, one could argue to the contrary, when it moves a person to a greater awareness of the experience of being alive. Many of the poems in Poems in the Time of Covid witness to life in the face of over 688,000 Covid casualties and counting nationwide. They comprise the vital expression of local voices that echo in the streets...
“A lot of the girls here cry a lot,” a 17-year-old Guatemalan girl told a Reuters reporter in June. “A lot of them end up having to talk to someone because they have thoughts of cutting themselves.” “There is no one here I can talk to about my case. There's also no one here I can talk to when I'm feeling sad. There's no one here; I just talk to God. It helps me and I cry,” said another teenage...
Marlboro Music, the internationally acclaimed chamber music study center and festival, announced Tuesday that it has closed on its purchase of the Potash Hill campus, the former home of Marlboro College. The organization finalized an agreement of sale with Democracy Builders Fund and Type 1 Civilization. The purchase ensures that the campus will remain intact, preserved, and the home campus for Marlboro Music for generations to come. “Acquiring the Potash Hill campus marks a new chapter for Marlboro Music,” Christopher...
The Medicare Annual Enrollment Period starts Oct. 15, which means people over 65 will be inundated with ads encouraging them to sign up for what's called “Medicare Advantage.” While Medicare Advantage (MA, also called “Medicare Part C”) sounds like it's part of traditional, nonprofit Medicare, it's actually operated by commercial, for-profit insurance companies, who, with the help of misleading marketing and celebrities like Joe Namath, have enrolled about 40 percent of American seniors. Medicare Advantage is different from traditional Medicare...
Richard Heller's new portrait and figurative paintings, “Remote Work,” will be exhibited throughout October at Gallery in the Woods with an opening reception during Gallery Walk on Friday, Oct. 1, from 5 to 8 p.m. Heller says these portrait paintings are a reflection of the previously unfamiliar circumstance of looking at himself on Zoom while speaking in a group. Distortion, exaggeration, and reality guide these paintings. The figurative paintings are a recurring theme in Heller's work and are a way...
The statewide Vermont Craft Council's Fall Open Studio Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 2 and 3 will include multiple craftspeople with working space in Windham County. Participating sites will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings. Visitors will have the chance to see demonstrations, purchase handcrafted items, talk to the professional artisans who made them and see the environment where their creative work happens. To...
At its Sept. 28 meeting, the Windham Southeast School Board made progress toward abuse investigations, support, and accountability, agreeing by consensus to talk with independent legal counsel, to look for a private investigator and a clinical psychologist, and to form a formal subcommittee. Chair David Schoales suggested members move to explore retaining the services of the Brattleboro Community Justice Center, a clinical psychologist to assess the health climate of the district, an independent investigator, and the Women's Freedom Center. Schoales...
Write Action announces Poems in the Time of Covid, a collection of poems by 37 poets from the area and beyond. A launch party will take place at the River Garden Marketplace, a new venue opened this month by the Whetstone Station restaurant and brewery, at 157 Main St. on Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. The anthology grew out of Poems Around Town (PAT), a project of Write Action, with support from Time to Write and the...
Lately, Brattleboro football fans had come to take it for granted that the Albert Elwell Trophy had a permanent home on Fairground Road. The Colonels had a 27-18 edge in their annual rivalry game with the Mount Anthony Patriots and held onto the trophy since 2015. On Sept. 25 at Natowich Field, the Patriots had other ideas. Mount Anthony spoiled the Colonels' homecoming weekend by scoring 36 unanswered points to take the trophy back to Bennington with a 36-12 victory.
Calijah Lindvall, from Brattleboro, was exited from the General Assistance (GA) Motel program, with the first round of Vermonters exited from their shelter on July 1. Just under two months later, he died of an overdose. Calijah's death was both predictable and preventable. Now Vermont has the choice of whether to save other vulnerable Vermonters or to let many more fall to similar fates. Calijah's mom, Keri Lindvall, was extremely concerned that her son was being destabilized. He suffered from...
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) School Board continues to respond to sexual misconduct claims against former Brattleboro Union High School English teacher Robert “Zeke” Hecker. In a Viewpoint in The Commons [“No more secrecy,” Viewpoint, Aug. 11], Mindy Haskins Rogers exposed a pattern of Hecker's behavior with students, both in and out of the classroom, and material from a 2009 Brattleboro Police Department investigation. That inquiry uncovered and quoted from a letter from Hecker to a survivor where he...
The five words that anyone associated with a big project loves to say - “on time and on budget” - were uttered frequently by NorthStar Group Services CEO Scott State during a Sept. 20 media tour of the former Vermont Yankee. The New York–based company is in the midst of decommissioning the dormant nuclear power plant, and State told reporters that he is confident that the project of taking it apart can be finished by 2026 - four years ahead...
I was disappointed to see Randolph T. Holhut's article, “Sanders pushes progressive priorities during speech in Brattleboro” [News, Sept. 8] make no mention of the violent arrest which took place at the Labor Day event. And I was distressed to find it mentioned only in William Johnson's poorly reported letter [Voices, Sept. 8], which misrepresents several key facts. I was one of several concerned citizens who filmed the incident as it unfolded, and I have made my recording available at...
Several years after being detected here, the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, EAB) continues to munch on a potential feast of more than 150 million ash (Fraxinus) trees in Vermont. That's 5 to 7 percent of the state's trees on average or about 1 in 12 trees, although in some areas, such as the Champlain Islands, the number is more like 40 percent. Losing this many trees would clearly have a significant impact, but there's still time to plan proactively...
My daughter in California asked: “What would you like your future generations to know about your experience of living through the Covid pandemic of 2020?” I am not sure my future generations will be all that interested in knowing about my living through the pandemic, assuming I will. But I'll do my best. * * * 1. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic was a surprise. Every day is a surprise, actually, when you think about it. For most of us, just...