TOWNSHEND-The smallest hospital in Vermont is not going anywhere. One provision of The One Big...
BELLOWS FALLS-National Grid and Great River Hydro (GRH) is making plans to upgrade the Vilas...
Much has been written about the effort expended on changing the way Vermont's education is...
BRATTLEBORO-Ask any journalist: It is almost impossible to get a good photo of documents being...
At a Nov. 15 Brattleboro Selectboard meeting, Windham & Windsor Housing Trust Executive Director Connie Snow announced that her nonprofit has an option to buy the Lamplighter Motel on Putney Road. The Housing Trust and Groundworks Collaborative are teaming up on a $4.3 million plan that would convert the Lamplighter into 22 fully-contained apartments. There would also be a community center and green space in the middle of the complex. The apartments would be about 350 square feet, and each...
The Vermont Theatre Company will be holding auditions for the hit musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Rachel Sheinkin, on Monday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m., in the Brattleboro Union High School auditorium, 131 Fairground Rd. (enter from the front doors to the auditorium). Spelling Bee tells the story of an eclectic group of six youngsters (overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves) who vie...
My relationship with Brattleboro and its daily newspaper, the Reformer, and its weekly paper, The Commons, has been a complicated one. Norm Runnion, the now-legendary managing editor of the Reformer hired me in February 1989 to fill a vacancy in the sports department with the retirement of longtime sports editor Ken Campbell. I had only one year of working with Norm, but it was a year that I treasure. The Reformer was hitting on all cylinders then, with a talented...
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