“There isn't a department head that hasn't taught me something,” said Town Manager Barbara Sondag, sitting in her office on the second floor of the Municipal Center, her desk covered by an organized chaos of paper, Looking back on her nearly 10 years as town manager, Sondag says she knows more than she ever imagined about the cost of one linear foot of sidewalk, fire suppression, and the value of a snowless winter. She leaves Brattleboro to take a position...
Don Baldini, legendary bassist for Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, and many other musicians, will join Dan DeWalt on piano for an evening of Great American Songbook standards on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Four Columns Inn at 21 West St. from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. For decades, Baldini has performed, recorded, and taught throughout the U.S., from the West Coast to New England, and “is beloved for his hard swing and impeccable playing,” writes DeWalt, who plays plays in a...
I am sitting at the airport, about to head home from the the 56th presidential inauguration; overhead, they are “paging the person who just lost their iPhone.” I hear people walking by, talking about Obama. A tote bag with those big ears declares “forward.” It feels like everyone in the city was here to celebrate. I know some were just here because they live here, but I have to say, the waitstaff, pedestrians and Metro workers I talked to radiated...
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