BRATTLEBORO-George Stone Sr., closing in on his 101st birthday, is one of the last members...
-On a Sunday night, Kelsey Rice found her abuser at her home again, out on...
BRATTLEBORO-The cause of the March 26 fires that temporarily displaced 126 at the School of...
BRATTLEBORO-Caz Clark is the safety and outreach manager at the Brattleboro Food Co-op, a position...
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin announced more than $1 million in development funds for housing organizations during a brief, spirited ceremony hosted at the Municipal Center on Dec. 4. The funds, from the Vermont Community Development Program (VCDP), were awarded to the towns of Brattleboro, Wilmington, and Thetford. Shumlin presented Brattleboro Selectboard Chair David Gartenstein and Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) Executive Director Connie Snow with the $1 million award. Gartenstein said the town “jumped at the chance” to co-sponsor...
A new and acclaimed biography, “Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man,” about the man widely regarded as the forefather of modern hip-hop, was largely written, incongruously, in a remote cabin in the woods of Southern Vermont. But then perhaps it not so odd. The author of this definitive biography, Marcus Baram, grew up in the village of Green River in Guilford, and in Belmont, Mass. He now lives in Green River and Brooklyn, N.Y. “I have spent a lot of...
The torn-up miles of Vermont Route 30 between Brattleboro and Newfane is no mere repaving project, but a full-depth reclamation (FDR) of the road surface. FDR requires making several passes over the 10 miles that run from the corner of Cedar Street in Brattleboro to about a mile south of Newfane Village, just past Brook Street. During this first phase, the road is being milled and the asphalt pulverized, mixed with gravel, and compacted. This is also when the roadway...
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