BRATTLEBORO-Last week, the Vermont Legislature adjourned after passing a controversial education reform bill that many...
WINDHAM-Approximately 40 people gathered at the Windham Meeting House on June 17 for "What's Possible,
BRATTLEBORO-Three school districts will begin their summer meals programs, distributing free, weekly meal kits to...
WESTMINSTER-After completing its 25th school year of operation, The Compass School recently and abruptly announced...
It was called the Spanish flu, but few realized that the strain didn't actualize in the country of its namesake. Spain simply didn't use wartime censors in its newspapers as other countries did during The Great War (later known as World War I), making reports from Spain more reliable than other news sources, and by proxy suggesting to many that the disease originated there. Scientists are still working to extrapolate where the influenza epidemic of 1918 might have originated. There...
The Open Music Collective, a collection of local, regional, and national artists who come together to perform, teach, and appreciate music, is celebrating its fourth anniversary with a reception and summer jazz faculty concert at the Cotton Mill on Thursday, June 27. Featured are faculty Carl Clements on sax and reeds, Matan Rubinstein on piano, Doug Raneri on drums, and Jamie MacDonald on bass. This concert also marks OMC's fourth week-long jazz intensive. Students of the jazz camp will open...
Now that I'm no longer a regular reporter at this newspaper, it's probably OK for me to admit this in public: One of my favorite assignments was interviewing Lester Dunklee. Oh, but I sure was intimidated. (Not that that stopped me, of course.) I moved to Brattleboro in 1994. About a year later, I got a job slinging coffee at Mocha Joe's. One afternoon, I was working with former owner Ellen Tucker-Capy, and she said she had to run an...
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