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)
The Brattleboro Music Center outgrew its Walnut Street location decades ago, but only last week did the 63-year old organization actualize a dream and sign a purchase agreement for a property on Guilford Street. Next steps like inspections and permitting have begun at the property, currently owned by the Winston Prouty Center for Child Development, and the BMC has started raising funds for the prospective relocation. The Prouty Center announced earlier this month that it submitted a purchase and sale...
My Nana Lekas sacrificed all she knew and all she was in order that her children could become Americans. She knew that she herself would never become one, though she lived in this country 67 of her 89 years and came over on the boat when she was merely 22. When Nana worked as a maid in a wealthy Boston suburb, she would come back to her children - my mother and aunts - and present the new ways of...
On Saturday, March 30, from 1 to 4 p.m., acclaimed pysanky artist and instructor Jenny Santa Maria will lead a hands-on workshop at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on the traditional Ukrainian folk art of egg decoration. Participants will leave the workshop with a beautiful decorated egg. Pysanky technique is similar to batik. Patterns are drawn on an egg with hot beeswax, which protects covered areas from subsequent applications of colored dyes. When the wax is removed, a multi-colored...
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