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)
On a recent bright and unseasonably cool July day, seven families gathered in the parking lot in front of Brattleboro Union High School. These were this summer's local hosts for The Fresh Air Fund Volunteer Host Family Program. Started in 1877, this program was designed to shuttle children from New York City to waiting homes in rural locations to give them a taste of life outside the boroughs. These families, like many before them, said they were excited to welcome...
It has been an honor and privilege to serve as the state representative for the people of Vernon and Guilford over the last four years. I'm running for re-election because I care deeply about the future of our rural communities. I continue to be very concerned about the growing divide in our country and the potential for deeper divides in our community. I believe in these times, we need leaders in Montpelier who can build bridges, not fences, to find...
Eugene Friesen, cello, Joel A. Martin, piano, and Peter Eldridge and Elizabeth Rogers, vocals, will present a special program of jazz and world-inflected seasonal music celebrating “the longest night.” “A Perfect Solstice” is a special holiday Stone Church Arts concert on Saturday, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the stone church on the hill in Bellows Falls. Friesen, the four-time Grammy winning cellist of the Paul Winter Consort, leads this celebration of the magic, warmth, and mystery of the winter...
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