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...
Hello and good day to you, Windham County folks! I hope things are well with you. We've got a few meteorological changes underway over the next seven days, but they should be accompanied by any extremes in temperature or humidity. After a pleasant enough day on Wednesday, we'll see a disturbance move through on Thursday into Friday with some scattered showers and thunderstorms possible. The weekend looks fair, with increasing temperatures each day. Humidity builds in by Sunday, and by...
The dignity and rights of Vermont's special education student population deserve more than a throwaway line at the end of a lengthy commentary that asks this same population of children to continue to stand back as private and independent schools deny their admittance despite accepting our public tax dollars. It's clear this practice is immoral. It should soon be illegal. At a time when adults in other parts of the country are working through their schools boards and legislatures to...
Still in his 50s, Billy Bragg has left an indelible mark on pop music. He unites several threads of post-war music on both sides of the Atlantic: the folk activism of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan; the anger-fueled, damn-it-all attitude of the Clash and the Jam; and the vaudevillian stylings of Lonnie Donegan, “the King of Skiffle.” And he has a big heart, one that's brought him to Bellows Falls twice before when he's performed at benefit concerts...
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