BRATTLEBORO-The Stone Church on Main Street had been hosting an eclectic range of music for...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Area Jewish Community (BAJC) invites everyone to join them to celebrate the festival of...
BRATTLEBORO-On Saturday, Dec. 21, Vermont-based Jatoba and Massachusetts-based Hot Day at the Zoo will make...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music celebrate the season with an evening of traditional...
Like many people who ran for election in Vermont after Donald J. Trump became president, Brandie Starr ran for Selectboard because, she said, remaining a bystander was no longer tenable. Starr, who has decided to step down from the Selectboard when her term ends after Annual Representative Town Meeting, has served as chair and vice-chair of the board during her four years on the board. The experience has refined her view of authority, as well as her own approach. “I'm...
My husband, Richard Gottlieb, died Feb. 15, 2012 from multiple myeloma, with a secondary (more devastating) soft-tissues disease caused by that bone cancer: amyloidosis, which affected his swallowing mechanism and his heart. The damage to his heart proved fatal when his heart stopped on that day after Valentine's Day. When it was announced that strontium-90 was found in the wells at the Vermont Yankee plant, I did some research and found that this calcium-seeking toxin gets into the ground and...
PUTNEY-On Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue will be performed at Yellow Barn. Bach's contrapuntal masterpiece will be performed in its entirety in a free concert at the Big Barn by Albert Cano Smit, with responses and anticipations improvised by Mikael Darmanie. The evening will conclude with an informal discussion with Smit and Darmanie hosted by Yellow Barn Artistic Director Seth Knopp. "You will not find Johann Sebastian Bach's name on your ballot this...
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