Southern Vermont Area Health Education Center (SVAHEC) announces MedQuest 2011 for southern Vermont high school students currently in Grades 9, 10 and 11. The program dates are:
• July 10-15 at Southern Vermont College/Bennington in partnership with Southwestern Vermont Health Care.
• July 31-Aug. 5 at the School for International Training in Brattleboro in partnership with Brattleboro, Grace Cottage and Springfield hospitals.
MedQuest is the “ultimate job shadow” experience for youth. With the help of volunteer professionals in the hospital, public health, and medical office setting, students see health care in action and get an insider's look at fast-paced, rewarding career opportunities.
It was a lost weekend for the Brattleboro Colonels as they journeyed to Essex over the weekend to play in the North-South Classic. On Friday, BFA-St. Albans knocked off Brattleboro, 33-17, while Hartford beat Essex, 39-34, in Friday's late game. Mary Richardson was Brattleboro's high scorer with 5 points,
Many New Year's resolutions involve living a healthier lifestyle - to eat a little better, to be a bit more active, to spend more time on the hobbies that nurture our sense of well-being, to devote more time to family activities, to find “balance.” Yet, many people struggle to...
One of the more compelling ways of learning locally about Siberian huskies and the sleds they pull with you in them is to book a ride at Husky Works Mushing Company on Route 100 in West Wardsboro. For example, how many know that mushers are people, not dogs? You learn that right away at Husky Works. Or that Siberian huskies are smaller than the Alaskan sled dog most familiar from the Iditarod race, although there have been Siberian husky teams...
Project Space 9 is currently displaying a collage exhibit of eight artists through the first week in February. On Jan. 21, from 4 to 7 p.m., Third Friday-goers may stop by to meet the artists and talk about the process and their work. Using collage on a puzzle piece by Myra Ashcroft, a picture frame by Joe Eisenberg, and using found wood from forest and beach by Phyllis Rosser, eight artists stretch the process in delightful, serious and whimsical approaches...
Obituaries Editor's note: The Commons will publish brief biographical information for citizens of Windham County and others, on request, as community news, free of charge. • Charles Greenleaf Bell, 94, of Putney. Died Dec. 25 in Belgrade, Maine, at the home of one of his five daughters. Former husband of Mildred MacKenzie. Husband of Diana (Danny) Mason. Father of Nona Bell Estrin and Delia Robinson of East Montpelier; Charlotte Bell Samuels of Fairfax, Calif.; Sandra Colt of Belgrade; and Carola...
A person serving in public office at any level usually needs a pretty thick skin. But sometimes, especially on the local level, it seems like you need to be covered in rhinoceros hide to survive as an elected official. You would think that one of those tough-hided pols would be Daryl Pillsbury, a salt-of-the-earth guy who is generally easy-going. But he said he had reached his limit this year, after he returned to the Selectboard after a 10-year absence. Last...
Music • Long Time Courting at Stone Church Arts: The Boston based all-girl band LongTime Courting will deliver their high energy traditional music from Ireland and beyond on Friday, Jan. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Immanuel Episcopal Church, 20 Church St., Bellows Falls. Take four individually accomplished traditional musicians and singers with fresh attitudes. Combine them, and you have the rich, soaring four-part vocal arrangements and high energy Irish jigs and reels that are Long Time Courting. Bringing together the...
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, the Women's Film Festival (www.womensfilmfestival.org), the longest-running women's film festival in New England and one of the best-known in the world, and the Center for Digital Art (centerfordigitalart.com) are calling out to all high school students to submit two minute videos (or less) on the theme, “woman.” Winners will receive cash prizes, honors and festival and website showings. Details for electronic submission are at the festival website. Deadline (no fee required) is Feb. 21.
The over-the-top media package that preceded the Treasure Hunters Roadshow's (THR) five-day blitz at the Quality Inn was designed to get attention. A slim black box sent to The Commons, with embossed images of golden coins on the front, included a Confederate bank note and a buffalo-head nickel. Opening the lid of the media kit exposed a DVD of a “syndicated television show” and pages of information for the press and triggered a recording of a man with a British...
The Brattleboro Concert Choir will present Carlos Fonseca's groundbreaking work, the Missa Afro-Brasiliera on Saturday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 p.m., and again on Sunday, Jan. 16, at 3 p.m. at St. Michael's Catholic Church on Walnut Street. The Missa Afro-Brasiliera was composed in 1976, when it won the “Best Vocal Work” prize of the Associação dos Críticos de São Paulo. Composer Carlos Fonseca had this to say about the Missa: “I have tried to abolish barriers between sacred, classical, traditional,
The revelers who packed the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on the night before Gov. Peter Shumlin's inauguration came in droves. They were wearing everything from three-piece suits to Carhartt work pants, cocktail dresses to blue jeans, and their hands held seltzer and wine, canes and infants. They were a teensy bit unruly; so comfortbale with the guest of honor that they shouted out comments in the middle of his welcome speech. That spoke to the familiarity of the guest...
A sense of excitement, mixed with the sobering reality of a hefty budget crunch, pervaded the Statehouse last Thursday. Elected officials, dignitaries, campaign volunteers, administration officials past and present, and press crammed onto the floor of the House, on the balcony, and spilled into the lobby. And then cameras flashed as Gov. Peter Shumlin took the oath of office. In his inauguration speech, Shumlin, the 81st governor and the first to hail from Putney since George D. Aiken in the...
The Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Services Department is offering two levels of multi-session classes for individuals diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia, or for those at risk for low bone mass. The first one, a Level 1 seven-week “Standing Tall Spine Health Class,” will be held on Mondays, starting Jan. 17. The Level 2 class is a five-week more advanced class which starts on Monday, March 14. It is offered as a follow-on to the Level 1 class, and will offer...
Rockingham Free Public Library director Celina Houlne recently asked the Rockingham Selectboard for an increase of $30,925 over the level-funded budget that the library has been operating under for the past two years. Houlne said that while the funding has remained the same, costs have increased. If the RFPL is not granted their request, Houlne said that “we're going to have to cut back on our services.” She added that she has been assured by interim Town Manager Francis “Dutch”
Entering his third year leading the Bellows Falls police, Chief Ron Lake was enthusiastic in his assessment of how the department is doing. He listed animal control, increased speed enforcement on Route 103, past and upcoming “blue light” contracts for road construction projects along Interstate 91, continued drug sweeps, and being appointed Truant Officer by the WNESU board (with Officer Scott Symonds assisting), as accomplishments for 2010. Lake said the Village has also added three speed warning signs funded by...
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That I stand before you today as Vermont's 81st governor was improbable, and no one can attest to that better than my mom and dad. My mom reminded me again on election night that it often seemed more likely in my grade-school years that I would struggle to find a job than to run for office. As a kid who learned differently, I remember well in second grade being called into the principal's office with my parents to have them...
We who serve the public in the Vermont House are the luckiest Vermonters in the world. It is an institution whose accomplishments are bounded only by our ability to work together. It is with immeasurable hope and faith in the future and what it portends, that I tender my resignation from the Vermont House of Representatives Windham 4 district effective at 5 p.m. with the swearing in of Governor-elect Peter Shumlin on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Nearly two generations of...
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital announces another session of a free program called “Look Good, Feel Better.” This one will be held on Monday, Jan. 17, from 1-3 p.m., in the Women's Resource Room on the second floor of the Richards Building at BMH. The programs are offered through the BMH Comprehensive Breast Care Program and Oncology Department. The hospital started offering the “Look Good, Feel Better” program several years ago when local cosmetologists Linda Barry and Joanna Terry of Cottage Hair...
Windham-4 Democrats gathered on Saturday at Village Square Booksellers to nominate Lamont Barnett, Matthew Trieber, and Suzanne Groenewold as potential successors to former state Rep. Michael Obuchowski. Gov. Peter Shumlin will choose one of the three to fill out the remainder of Obuchowski's term, although Shumlin does have the option to select someone else. “Whoever gets appointed will have big shoes to fill, but we are delighted in the quality of all three of the nominees,” Shumlin said on Monday.
The Brattleboro Recreation & Parks Department will offer the following upcoming programs. To register, or to learn more about the offerings, call the Recreation & Parks Office at 802-254-5808, weekdays from 10 a.m. to noon or 1 to 5 p.m. Gymnastics Registration for the second session of gymnastic classes will be held Thursday, Jan. 20, from 3:30 to 6 p.m., at the Gibson-Aiken Center, 207 Main St. The classes are scheduled to start Jan. 22. The cost of this session...
Rep. Peter Welch Gabby Giffords is one of my closest friends in Congress. A persistent and effective legislator, she stands out for her warmth, genuine attentiveness and concern for all. Gabby is one of the best listeners I know. Her kindness and graciousness know no bounds. As this tragic situation develops, Margaret and I are keeping Gabby, her family, her staff and the many others involved in this horrific episode in our thoughts and prayers. Sen. Patrick Leahy Vermonters' deepest...