Cal Glover-Wessel grew up in Brattleboro and lives here again after a few years of...
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
A walking path, a kayak launch, a public restroom, and an outdoor amphitheater: those are a few of the design features unveiled by the Hinsdale-Brattleboro Existing Bridges Subcommittee. The group is charged with defining what the Brattleboro and Hinsdale, N.H., communities want for Hinsdale Island (more universally know as “the Island”) and the walkway that will replace the current stretch of Route 119 after the new Hinsdale-Brattleboro bridge is completed. “Very early on in our work we set out some...
A recent cover of The New Yorker shows construction on the post office on 8th Avenue and 32nd Street in Manhattan. You can read the end of the quote carved into the marble façade along the front of the building. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” it reads. A construction guy is working, mid-word, on a continuation of the quote along the rest of the...
Vermont Vaudeville, the Northeast Kingdom-based company specializing in cutting-edge variety entertainment, is touring Vermont this winter - and landing on the New England Youth Theatre stage on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. The troupe is funded in part by a grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts and support from Vermont Public Radio. Vermont Vaudeville has produced shows at the majestic Hardwick Town House, a community-run venue in the heart of Hardwick, since...
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