Brattleboro shed its winter coat on Friday as it enjoyed an afternoon where the temperatures approached 60 degrees. It was a happy break from a long and snowy winter. Perhaps the biggest sigh of relief came from the Brattleboro Area Drop In Center's staff. They know that cold, hunger, and homelessness are a life-threatening combination. “People come in hungry. Hungry and cold,” Drop In Center executive director Melinda Bussino told Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin. Shumlin toured the Drop In Center...
Honestly, some discoveries are not worth the trouble of a press release. Our community hospital's newsletter reported last fall that “women who exercised strenuously for more than six hours a week and had no family history of the disease were 23 percent less likely to develop breast cancer." Apparently, the National Cancer Institute gathered this conclusion after studying 32,000 women for over 11 years. And big surprise: the six-plus hours of exercise per week only seemed to improve a woman's...
The New England Youth Theatre alumni present “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas on June 20 and 21. Directed by Doran Hamm, assisted by Ben Stockman, “Under Milk Wood” is a stunning poetic play of voices. Set in a small fishing village on the coast of Wales, the play introduces a variety of characters who reside in and beneath the town. This funny, charming, lyrical, bawdy play entices you into the realm of your own imagination. Don't miss NEYT founder...
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