BRATTLEBORO-An achievement that has been decades in the making is about to finally happen with...
BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...
PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...
BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...
BELLOWS FALLS-Elderly Vermonters have been going down to New York City this summer and getting arrested in the name of climate change. Protestors in the 1960s lay down in the streets and got arrested while trying to stop the Vietnam War. These days they're grayer and a little more frail, but they're still at it. While getting arrested probably won't be enough to stop forest fires in the West, houses washing away in the East, or islands disappearing in the...
As a project of the Greater Falls Community Justice Center (GFCJC), based in Bellows Falls and Springfield, we have brought Afghani woman muralist Negina Azimi to paint murals with students in area schools. We focus on the theme of justice. In restorative style circles, students discuss what justice means to them and generate themes, words, and mostly images that Negina can incorporate into a mural. We have completed murals in two schools so far, at Bellows Falls Union High School...
Six great undergraduate singing groups will perform at the Latchis Theater on Saturday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Brattleboro's 12th annual Collegiate A Cappella Concert. A benefit for the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) sponsored by Brattleboro Savings & Loan, Twombly Wealth Management Group, The Richards Group, and Brattleboro Community TV, the concert will feature the Tufts Amalgamates, the Middlebury D8s, the University of Vermont Cat's Meow, the Clark Bars, the Williams College Ephlats, and the Tufts Beelzebubs.
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