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 Windham Southeast School District Board has chosen attorney Aimee Goddard of Buehler & Annis, PLC to serve as independent investigator into sexual abuse charges dating back to the early 1970s, following evidence “to wherever the investigation takes it,” as School Board Chair David Schoales put it. The decision was made at the board's Dec. 21 meeting, held at the Dummerston School and livestreamed on Zoom. “We have identified an investigator and a law firm we would like to retain...
Women still find themselves underrepresented in politics on a national level, but their ranks are growing in Vermont. While women make up about 17 percent of the House of Representatives and the Senate in Washington, the percentage of female representation in Vermont is 38 percent in the House and 36.6 percent in the Senate - among the highest in the nation. It's a trend that other parts of the country aren't following. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures,
Main Street Arts is hosting the GorMatt StrangePeak project in its gallery and as workshops on Saturday, Oct. 16 and Saturday, Oct. 23. Collaborative collage artist GorMatt StrangePeak (a.k.a. Gordon Korstange and Matthew Peake) have been working together making collages for over seven years. In 2018, they introduced a writing component into their collaboration by composing labels for each collage which led to the creation of a fictitious curator in a make-believe town with imaginary denizens. Many of these collages...
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