NEWFANE-The former office of John Morrison, a longtime broker with Barrett & Valley Associates Real...
DUMMERSTON-Vermont Theatre Company opens its 40th season with "An Evening of One Act Plays" at...
BRATTLEBORO-On Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m., the Latchis Theatre will ring again with the...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Women's Chorus (BWC) presents its fall concert, "We Toast the Days," on Nov.
Longtime Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) representative and current Vice Chair David Schoales has left his elected seat on the board. His resignation, sent to the district's central office last week, became effective on Oct. 22. Asked why he has decided to step down now, Schoales responded that recent public diatribe against the board has risen to an unpalatable level. He said he feels he can be more helpful if he is no longer a board member. “The ugliness does...
A new bill, H.191, gives Vermont legislators the opportunity to banish the cruel and widely despised practice of recreational trapping from our state. Steel-jaw leghold traps cause gruesome injuries, prolonged agony, and death for an untold number of wild and domestic animals in Vermont. Trapped animals may die of blood loss, dehydration, hypothermia, or predation, or may chew or twist off a limb, paw or digit to escape. Traps also drown animals, a particularly inhumane and horrifying death for river...
On Friday, Feb. 10, from 5 to 6 p.m., the Brattleboro Literary Festival will host U.K. author and environmentalist Fred Pearce to discuss his book, A Trillion Trees: Restoring Our Forests by Trusting in Nature. Pearce’s new book is a guide through spectacular forests around the world. Along the way, he charts the extraordinary pace of forest destruction, and explores why some are beginning to recover. “With vivid, observant reporting,” states a news release, “Pearce transports readers to the remote...
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