The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...
BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
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BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
After months investigating the potential relocation of an emergency seasonal shelter and food shelf to a permanent home, Groundworks Collaborative announced Monday that it has abandoned plans for 39 Frost St. “We made this decision without the comfort of a plan B,” Groundworks Executive Director Joshua Davis said. He said money directed the decision to not purchase the 3,300-square foot property; the organization simply can't afford to redevelop the property. Groundworks must now find another site for the emergency shelter,
Main Street Arts is holding auditions for its winter production, Shrek the Musical, on Sept. 6, 7, and 8. Auditions will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6; 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 7; and 3 to 3:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 8, with call backs that day from 3:30 to 6 p.m. The eight performances will take place March 26 through April 4, 2020, at the Bellows Falls Opera House. Rehearsals begin Jan. 1. “This show...
Elayne Clift rightly laments “the fear of having a catastrophic health crisis, worrying about climate change, deregulation, deportations, the return to banking practices that brought this country to its knees, global instability, the possibility of war, rising hate crimes, the silencing of media, and much more.” But she very wrongly characterizes them as uniquely “Trumpian.” All of these “stressors” have been steadily growing since Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton remade their respective parties to pursue neoliberal austerity at home and...
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