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...
As the Vermont Senate takes up debate on the health care reform bill, questions such as “How will we fund it?” and “What about...?” in all its permutations aren't going away. An audience peppered the special assistant to the governor for health reform, a health insurance executive, a health care provider, and a former resident of Sweden with questions Monday night at the Brattleboro Retreat. Richard Davis, a health care reform advocate from Guilford, organized “Health Care Reform in Vermont:
The events sweeping the Middle East are causing great difficulty for some and, in particular, our present, fine administration. For decades, successive administrations have turned a blind eye to all the outrageous human rights abuses meted out to a defenseless Egyptian population. For decades, Hosni Mubarak has been a faithful ally to America. In return, he receives $3 billion in U.S. aid each year, along with all the military equipment needed to suppress the Egyptian people. The quid pro quo...
The Nature Museum at Grafton presents the seventh annual Fairy House Festival on Saturday, Sept. 26, and Sunday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Local individuals, families, schools, libraries, and businesses are collecting pine cones, acorn caps, feathers, moss, and more to create small fairy houses, which will be placed along a forest foot path. Visitors to the Fairy House Festival will be able to create their own fairy dwellings in the gardens. Tour-goers may try face painting...
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