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...
Sustainable Valley Group and the Green Island project (SVG-GI) recently teamed up with 350.org for a work party to clean out space in the former Robertson Paper Mill, a measure that the organization's president, Dave Bonta, hopes will “get things moving” despite seeing the rejection of a feasibility study planning grant earlier this summer. SVG-GI hopes to turn the building at 1 Island St. into a space for green businesses to locate in an attempt to revitalize the commercially and...
Adults and children alike will have the opportunity to be transported to Neverland through a multimedia presentation of the silent film Peter Pan (1924), featuring a live score by Washington-based harpist Leslie McMichael and theatrical special effects by the Western Massachusetts troupe The Lovelights. The event will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26 in the sanctuary of Epsilon Spires at 190 Main St. Scottish writer J.M. Barrie created the character of Peter Pan in 1902, and since...
Once it was part of a vast and ancient forest that spanned the continent. Enormous trees grew, died, and fell in the silence of this eternal forest. The arrival of the first Europeans changed everything. Steel tools cut through trees, transforming woods into pasture. By the end of the Civil War, most of Vermont had been cleared for grazing land. Veterans who had seen the rich flat land of Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland left the state in droves in search...
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