BRATTLEBORO-Albert Mikuski, now 88 years old, recalls an extraordinary story of how he and his...
-The state's housing crisis will be a top priority in the upcoming legislative session, and...
BRATTLEBORO-At a standing-room-only meeting at Academy School on Dec. 12, Representative Town Meeting (RTM) members...
PUTNEY-Ars longa, vita brevis. One translation of the Latin phrase is that craft takes a...
You might call the Calvary Chapel in West Townshend the church too tough to die. How else would you explain why the building is still standing after a runaway moving van careened down Windham Hill Road last Monday, flew across Route 30 and slammed into the ground between the chapel and the West Townshend Community Post Office and art gallery building? Ron Millette, the nondenominational Christian church's pastor and also a logger, called the forces that rocked the original 193-year-old...
During my stay at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, I got a rude lesson in portion control. I assumed my meals had been designed for me, an overweight diabetic who had presented with a heart attack, so the lean trays brought to my bedside did not surprise me. Even so, my disappointment over one particular item helped awaken me to the realities of my relationship with food. After three days, the cheerful woman who checked in every morning to discuss the...
Award-winning author David Blistein doesn't consider his upcoming presentation at Next Stage so much a reading as a community conversation about the local opioid crisis. On Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m., Next Stage Arts Project will host Blistein, who will be reading from his new book Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World, which tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis. “I will read a fairly short excerpt...
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