BRATTLEBORO-Last week, the Vermont Legislature adjourned after passing a controversial education reform bill that many...
WINDHAM-Approximately 40 people gathered at the Windham Meeting House on June 17 for "What's Possible,
BRATTLEBORO-Three school districts will begin their summer meals programs, distributing free, weekly meal kits to...
WESTMINSTER-After completing its 25th school year of operation, The Compass School recently and abruptly announced...
In 1974, during the fall of his senior year at Brattleboro Union High School, Steve Barrett joined the Brattleboro Fire Department as an on-call firefighter. He's been serving the town ever since. Forty-seven years later, Barrett's long career of serving his town - including 41 years with the Public Works Department - is winding down. He will be retiring as public works director on Dec. 18, which gives him plenty of time to bring his successor, Assistant Public Works Director...
The idea for Circus in Place came out of a collaborative brainstorm by a group of circus artists in Vermont whose livelihoods were turned upside down during the global pandemic. “All of our touring contracts were cancelled,” Kevin O'Keefe of Circus Minimus, a circus artist who lives in West Brattleboro, said in a news release. “So we came together to build an outdoor, site-specific performance event that a local audience could see safely.” But due to out-of-state travel restrictions, most...
Putney Friends Meeting (Quakers) joins the growing chorus of those reaching out to our friends and neighbors in light of another antisemitic symbol showing up in town. Even before the terrible war in the Middle East, a swastika was painted on the sidewalk near Putney Central School. Such a senseless act of hate hurts us all. We grieve for the violence in Gaza, Israel, and elsewhere. We mourn every life lost, every injury, and every hateful word and symbol used...
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