PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present a dance party with roots and world music...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts presents a concert of original compositions in the Arabic maqam tradition, featuring...
BRATTLEBORO-In meSSeS' solo circus production, Janoah...anygoodjokes?, Janoah the Jester juggles several tasks simultaneously, performing and...
WESTMINSTER WEST-The River Singers Community Chorus, led by Mary Cay Brass, will start their winter/spring...
Chittenden County State's Attorney and Attorney General candidate T.J. Donovan has made several appearences in Brattleboro to keep his name before voters who may be accustomed hearing about 15-year incumbent AG Bill Sorrell. Donovan is running in the Democratic primary on Aug 28 against Sorrell in what many observers see as the most contested race of the season. “It's a tough challenge but we're up for it,” Donovan said on the phone last month as he was driving from Brattleboro...
In a recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education ("When Your College Is Staring Death in the Face"), former Marlboro College Trustee Dena S. Davis wrote: "We decided to merge with Emerson [College]. The [Marlboro] Music Festival bought the campus." This is not true. The campus was purchased by Democracy Builders. The sale of the campus to Democracy Builders, along with the turmoil that went along with the trustees' decision to approve the sale, are all fully detailed in...
The work of Don Smead and Smead Woodcraft will be featured for the month of November at the River Artisans Cooperative in Saxtons River. Founded by Hugh Smead in 1954, Smead Woodcraft is nationally known for its items made from Vermont hardwoods. Founder Hugh Smead, was stricken late in life with polio and became paralyzed from the waist down. He was unable to keep his job at Putney's Basketville, but he hadn't lost his talents at woodworking. A local church...
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