BRATTLEBORO-George Stone Sr., closing in on his 101st birthday, is one of the last members...
-On a Sunday night, Kelsey Rice found her abuser at her home again, out on...
BRATTLEBORO-The cause of the March 26 fires that temporarily displaced 126 at the School of...
BRATTLEBORO-Caz Clark is the safety and outreach manager at the Brattleboro Food Co-op, a position...
BRATTLEBORO-An America 250 Town Hall will consider the "intellectual and imaginative muscles necessary for holding free-speech principles in a pluralist society." The session, "What Does the First Amendment Ask of Us?" orchestrated by the Windham World Affairs Council, Brooks Memorial Library, and Vermont Independent Media/The Commons' Voices Live series, will take place in person at the library at 224 Main St. and will be livestreamd on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 6:30 p.m. Meg Mott, a professor emerita who taught for...
The Windham Orchestra spotlights two musical geniuses in a special concert Sunday, April 8. Two profoundly different works - Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15, by Brahms and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 6) - are on the program at the 3 p.m. concert at the Latchis Theatre. Brahms' work opens the concert, with Windham Orchestra Musical Director Hugh Keelan at the piano, and Jessie Pierpont as guest conductor. Keelan describes the Piano Concerto as a work...
At the excellent Brattleboro Safer Streets Forum (May 5), the town manager invited everyone to suggest how the streets could be safer for pedestrians and cyclists, saying that good ideas could be implemented as soon as possible. Then officials responsible told us why not. An experienced crossing guard explained how an infamous intersection endangers schoolchildren and crossing guards. Officials said that engineers have approved it. Some Keene crosswalks double as speed bumps. Officials said not in Brattleboro, because they slow...
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