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)
What should a town do with public housing built on a floodplain? The answer: move the residents out and tear the houses down. Melrose Terrace, which flooded and was evacuated during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, is managed by Brattleboro Housing Partnerships (formerly known as the Brattleboro Housing Authority). BHP oversees six other federally-subsidized public housing complexes in town. Melrose was designed for some of the most vulnerable members of the community: the elderly and disabled. But local, state, and...
RE: “Grateful for book's shout-out to Shadis,” [Letters, May 9]. Wow, Peter Alexander, you and Ray Shadis have discovered the dastardly secret that Entergy is a for-profit corporation, out to use the free-market system to earn the best return it can for its shareholders. Gasp. Wonder where all you anti-nukers will be when the lights go out in Brattleboro and your energy bills skyrocket.
On Saturday, July 20, Wardsboro Curtain Call presents contemporary bluegrass and folk quartet The Stockwell Brothers at the Wardsboro Town Hall. Bruce, Barry, Alan and Kelly Stockwell's music spans traditional and progressive styles, but their trademark acoustic sound features new singer/songwriter material recast with banjo, alternative rhythms, and three-part harmonies. They cover straight ahead bluegrass songs, finger picked acoustic guitar ballads, full tilt breakdowns and traditional mandolin tunes mixed in with more unusual fare - Americana melodies riding world beat...
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