The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...
BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
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BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
Gov. Peter Shumlin announced five awards on Dec. 12 in the first round of Windham County Economic Development Program last week. The news came with sides of sweet and spicy. The sweet: Five organizations received official word that they'd received a grand total of $814,000 in grants and loans from the Windham County Economic Development Program (WCEDP). The governor delivered the good news during a press conference in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Municipal Center. The spicy: The state...
The Brattleboro Music Center Season Guest Concert features the Sarasa Ensemble performing “Don Quixote, Knight Errant.” The Cambridge, Mass.–based group will offer two live performances, with very limited seating to ensure adequate social distancing. They are set for Friday, Sept. 18, at 5 and 7 p.m. at the BMC. A performance also will be streamed on Sarasa's YouTube channel Sunday, Sept. 20, at 3 p.m. The ensemble's opening program for the 2020-21 season, “On the Fringe,” celebrates world literature's original...
From the outset of hearing about Act 46 here in Putney, there has been a sense I and many other townspeople I have spoken with have had of its “inevitability,” as a de facto change that has come down from our governor and state legislators. This is not the case - especially after the Legislature heard from many citizens throughout the state and passed Act 49, which modified and changed some of the requirements of Act 46. It is really...
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