BRATTLEBORO-The Henrik Ibsen drama An Enemy of the People will lead audiences to question "the...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will head to Windham County to present two cutting-edge music presentations...
BRATTLEBORO-Throughout the month of April, River Gallery School will exhibit "Places We Know: Local Landscapes...
BRATTLEBORO-ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., is supporting the Vermont Reads community program by...
A few months ago, the Windham Regional Commission asked officials in a dozen towns what they thought of the state possibly buying TransCanada properties along the Connecticut and Deerfield rivers. Responses varied, but one concern - a potential loss of critical tax revenue from the properties due to state ownership - rose to the top of the list. Vernon's response said any tax hit would be “just plain cruel” in light of the recent closure of Vermont Yankee. So last...
Canal Street Art Gallery, 23 Canal Street, presents “Amendment XXIX Right to Privacy,” a collection of artworks signifying artists' personal expression on a Right To Privacy Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Artists in the show include Clare Adams, Nancy Fitz-Rapalje, Corinne Greenhalgh, Yevette Hendler, Marcie Maynard, Roxy Rubell, and Jeanette Staley. The show opens Friday, Oct. 21 with an opportunity to meet the artists during the Bellows Falls 3rd Friday Gallery Night from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit is...
When Albert Camus published his allegorical story The Plague in 1947 about a deadly contagion sweeping the French city of Oran in 1849, he raised a number of questions about the nature of the human condition. “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends,” one of his characters says. Later, Camus reflects that “a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour [...] when all one craves for is...
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