BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced...
BRATTLEBORO-Greg Lesch. the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, died Feb. 19,
Many people in Windham County look on in frustration as they watch the police arrest...
ROCKINGHAM-The town of Rockingham recently announced that the Proposed Amendments to the town's Zoning and...
Brattleboro Rotary Club holds 47th annual Christmas Tree Fundraiser BRATTLEBORO - On Nov. 26, the 47th annual Brattleboro Rotary Club Christmas Tree Fundraiser began. Since 1965, the Brattleboro Rotary Club has sold Christmas trees as a fundraiser for local community service projects. Vermont-grown trees of all shapes and sizes will be sold 1-7 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays in front of Brattleboro Bowl on Putney Road. Sales will continue until the trees...
On Thursday, June 16, at 8 p.m., Yellow Barn welcomes alumni ensemble The Parker Quartet - Daniel Chong and Ying Xue, violins; Jessica Bodner, viola; and Kee-Hyun Kim, cello - back to Putney for a special preseason performance. The program includes Webern's Five Movements for String Quartet, Bartók's String Quartet No.1, and Schubert's String Quartet in G Major, D.887. The concert takes place at the “Big Barn” on 49 Main St. near the Putney Food Co-op.
Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of Washington, D.C.'s public schools, recently remarked, “There are many nations who have figured out what works in education. Look at Singapore.” Rhee, the CEO of StudentsFirst, a group working for educational reform, said that last summer, she heard the prime minister give a speech “in which he outlined the plan for making Singapore No. 1 in the world, financially. His economic plan was rooted in education. He knows that if the country can make...
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