PUTNEY-Twenty shows - one per week - strikingly diverse and all outdoors. That's what the...
BRATTLEBORO-Singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy is having a moment in the spotlight. Her new EP The Sun...
While a mandala may seem pure art, this configuration of images and symbols guides focus...
BELLOWS FALLS-Heartfelt Seeds and Wild Goose Players will host a book signing and Mother's Day...
Many towns in Windham County received their charters in 1753 and 1754 from Benning Wentworth, the governor of New Hampshire. Guilford was among those towns, getting its charter in 1754. But in 1961, the town instead celebrated the bicentennial of the arrival of the first European settler in the town, Micah Rice, who set up his homestead in 1761 with his wife, Silence, and his infant daughter, Sarah, on what is now Weatherhead Hollow Road. “We haven't been able to...
Your article mentions a complaint by Laura Campbell about "WWHT's 'startling' characterization of lots on opposite sides of Carol Brown Way as 'contiguous,' when they touch at no point; rather, the lots are separated by a busy thoroughfare owned and maintained by the town of Putney." Ms. Campbell may be ignorant of the standard relationship of property lines to town roads in Vermont: each lot has its boundary at the street's center. Two lots on opposite sides of a street...
The Rockingham Free Public Library offers “Light in Winter: Creative Writing Grounded in Memory,” a creative writing workshop with author Elayne Clift, on Saturday, Feb. 1, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. During the dark days of winter, when some might find it difficult to be outdoors, why not let a little light shine in through creative writing grounded in memory? Using the inspirational words of other writers, and working from triggers, this creative non-fiction workshop asks participants to look...
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