Issue #713
‘My grandchildren did not ask for this in their lives’
Global statistics tell us that one in three people know someone who has substance use disorder, but we hear little about what happens to the families involved in the opioid crisis.
In 1998, Annie Augustus Rose's daughter revealed her struggles with heroin and that she was ready to ask for help. That same day, as Rose drove her to this first attempt at rehabilitation, little did they both realize how life for this family would be altered as her family unexpectedly crashed headfirst into the world of addiction.
Energize Vermont announces grant to support WindowDressers programs in Guilford, Rockingham
Energize Vermont, a nonprofit energy education and advocacy organization, recently announced two grant awards to the Guilford and Rockingham Energy Committees to support the towns' WindowDressers program. At WindowDressers workshops, community volunteers collaborate to assemble custom-fit plastic film inserts stretched over wooden frames. The Energize Vermont grant is intended...
Three Guilford scholarship applications due in May
There are three different scholarships annually available to Guilford graduating seniors from BUHS. The Bullock Scholarship, a Guilford town award, had a May 1 deadline. $3,000 is awarded either to a single recipent, or divided between two or more applicants. Students planning on attending two- or four-year higher learning...
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Bellows Falls film showcase awarded $800 from bank
Thanks to an $800 grant awarded to (1)Rockingham Entertainment Development LTD (RED) by Claremont Savings Bank, a regional, one-day film festival will occur at the Bellows Falls Opera House on Saturday, Oct. 21. The Bellows Falls Vermont (BFVT) Film Showcase will feature filmmakers whose work focuses on Vermont topics and locations, or whose actors, directors, and team members are from Vermont. RED will partner with Falls Area Community Televisions (FACT TV) in Bellows Falls to produce the festival. Ten years...
Next Stage hosts Kalos, Fern Maddie
Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present an evening of traditional Celtic and folk music by Kalos (Eric McDonald, Ryan McKasson, and Jeremiah McLane) and Fern Maddie on Friday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m., at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill. Three innovative interpreters and composers of Celtic roots music - McDonald (guitar, mandolin, vocals), McKasson, (fiddle, viola, vocals), and McLane (accordion, piano, vocals) - draw on years of experience performing with the likes of Cantrip, Nightingale, The Clayfoot Strutters, and...
Milestones
Obituaries • Bettymae (Burnham) (Wood) Bond, 88, of Dummerston. Died peacefully in her sleep on Feb. 17, 2023 at The Arbors in Shelburne, Vermont, where she had resided for the past five years. She was married twice; first to Roger Wood with whom she had four children, Michael (deceased at birth), Diane (Alan) Saunders of Bristol, Timothy (deceased), and Ernest (Brenda) of East Dummerston; then Harry Bond after Roger's death. She had five grandchildren: Jenna, Patrick, David, Ben, and Keith.
Around the Towns
Brooks Library to host refugee support and integration panel BRATTLEBORO - The Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC), southern Vermont's refugee resettlement agency, will host an informational panel on refugees coming to the area from Eritrea/Tigray, Central Africa, Yemen, and Latin America/Guatemala. The event, to be held at Brooks Memorial Library on Monday, May 8, from 5 to 7 p.m., aims to raise awareness of the challenges faced by refugees and to encourage community engagement in welcoming and supporting the new...
Colonels rally to defeat St. Johnsbury Toppers, 6-5
In baseball, the best way to flush away a bad game in the field is to have a good game at the plate. Brattleboro third baseman Jackson Emery made three errors, but the defensive miscues were wiped away when he cracked a two-out, two-run double in the fifth inning to give the Colonels a 6-5 win over the St. Johnsbury Hilltoppers on a gray and windy afternoon at Tenney Field. The April 28 win, coupled with a 15-2 drubbing of...
Literary Cocktail Hour hosts author Kathryn Ma on May 12
On Friday, May 12, at 5 p.m., A Literary Cocktail Hour will present critically acclaimed author Kathryn Ma, with her latest book, The Chinese Groove, in an online conversation with local writer Stephanie Greene. Register at bit.ly/LitCocktail30. In The Chinese Groove, 18-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales...
Grafton Rescue Squad honors longtime volunteers
The Grafton Rescue Squad recently recognized three of its longtime members who collectively have volunteered over 115 years of service as emergency medical responders. “These three responders, Stan Mack, Eric Stevens, and Cathy Siano Goodwin, are well known in the region, not only due to their service with Grafton Rescue but because of their involvement in various other community and emergency service organizations throughout the years,” Grafton Rescue President Keith Hermiz said in a news release Mack was one of...
Gallery Walks kicks off 2023 season on May 5
On Friday, May 5, Brattleboro's Gallery Walk, a long-running and beloved arts and community event, returns from its winter hiatus. Once again, Gallery Walk will be held rain or shine every first Friday, May through December, from 5 to 9 p.m. For three decades, Gallery Walk has showcased art in the galleries and in the streets of downtown Brattleboro. Each first Friday, visitors can expect a huge block party with street closure of Elliot Street and Harmony Parking lot featuring...
Epsilon Spires, the ArtLords present a night of Afghan food and film combined with a discussion of LGBTQ rights
The Danish-Afghan animated documentary Flee will be screened at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, at Epsilon Spires. The event will also include Afghan food cooked by the ArtLords, a grassroots network of Afghan muralists and political activists who were displaced by the Taliban and resettled in Brattleboro, where they have previously collaborated on the new High Street mural that was commissioned by Epsilon Spires and designed by First Proof Press. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion...
Guilford Center Stage marks its return with a classic: Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’
Guilford Center Stage returns after a 3-year intermission with a production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town, at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford. Performances are Friday and Saturday, May 5 and 6, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 7 at 2 p.m. Ian Hefele directs a cast from the tri-state region. A theatrical groundbreaker when it debuted in 1938, Our Town was written at the nearby MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and the town of Grover's Corners in...
BMAC presents photographer Cathy Cone in an online talk
Vermont-based artist Cathy Cone, whose work is on view in the exhibition “Portals and Portraits” at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) through June 11, will take part in an online conversation with BMAC Director of Exhibitions Sarah Freeman on Thursday, May 11, at 7 p.m. The conversation will focus on Cone's photographic practice, including her integration of multiple photographic and drawing media and techniques in her work. The event is free and will take place via Zoom and Facebook...
Brooks library hosts three authors from Brattleboro
Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, will showcase three local writers next week in two separate events. On Sunday, May 7, at 3 p.m., in the Main Reading Room, join author Ann Braden for the launch of her newest novel, Opinions and Opossums. She will read a selection from her new book and answer questions. There will be a photo booth, a writing activity, an opportunity for two lucky people to win a free book, and there may even be...
There was no stopping us
That summer. We were in our glory then, spilling out into the streets, cropping up like dandelions, disheveled like young puppies, hairy and floppy. There was a war going on across the world, and we had arrived at a little Vermont town with a cumbersome name. It was 1973. The town was a mix of old and new, the Dutch Bake Shop at the corner of Elliot and Main, which was not at all Dutch and had been there for...
People are people all over the world
I try to ride my bicycle at least once a day, and today is a national holiday in Armenia - May Day - so when I would usually be teaching English online, I slipped out onto the roadways hoping for only a little traffic and a splendid ride on this gorgeous spring day. I wasn't disappointed. I have some rules for myself, since this is not only about fresh air, it's about exercising, and they include making myself spend the...
N.H. artists take a field trip to Brattleboro
Making art can be a lonely business. So what do most artists want? As it turns out, it's a sense of community. That was the driving consensus of the 30 artists from Windham County in Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire who came together at Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts at 183 Main St. on a wet Saturday morning to sample delicacies, learn about new opportunities to show their work, and to schmooze. Definitely, to schmooze. The Artist-to-Artist Field Trip was organized by...
New brews mean good news for Vermont State Parks
The West River Spring Whitewater Release on Saturday, May 6 at Jamaica State Park - a tradition that draws hundreds of canoers, kayakers, and whitewater rafters and resumes for the first time since 2020 - will be the setting for the launch party for a local brewery's initiative to benefit the state's park system. Pints for Parks is a collaboration between Whetstone Beer Co. and Vermont State Parks, where twice per year the company will focus on one of the...
Rescue Inc. takes over Keene firm
Windham County's largest and longest-serving emergency medical services provider is set to take over for a cash-strapped peer in neighboring New Hampshire. Rescue Inc., a Brattleboro-based nonprofit, will assume the obligations of the family-owned R.J. DiLuzio Ambulance, which has wrestled with a $648,965 federal tax bill in the Granite State city of Keene and surrounding Cheshire County towns. “They have been struggling financially, and we are going to step in to provide continuity,” said Drew Hazelton, Rescue's chief of operations.
Our Town is hurting
Our Town is hurting Our Town, full of playful spirit, friendly faces good hearts, is hurting. Young people taken from us suddenly, seeming without reason, a woman who chose to help the less fortunate taken from us brutally. The very trees seem to have lost their ability, their desire to stand upright, strong undermined by the soil they root in their trunks ravaged, branches littering the muddy ground. * * * But we are undeterred: there is too much Life...
Hanging up the tongs
You won't be getting your pulled pork sandwich or tempeh burger at Top-of-the-Hill Grill this summer. Nor ever again - at least not the way Jon Julian made them. After 25 summers at 632–634 Putney Rd. and numerous awards and accolades, the 73-year-old restaurateur put the property, with the business, on the market in April. “I'm moving on at this point,” said Julian. “During our season, the work was seven days a week, double shift every day. It's a physical...
River Gallery School of Art promotes local artists with ‘Off the Wall’ fundraiser
River Gallery School (RGS) is preparing for its “Off the Wall” fundraiser - the art lottery where everyone wins. This popular event will take place in person on Saturday, May 20, 5 to 8 p.m., at the 118 Elliot gallery on Elliott Street. You can also take part in the fundraiser remotely. An art show of available works can be seen at the gallery at 118 Elliot beginning on Friday, May 5. Participants purchase a lottery ticket from River Gallery...