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...
About 100 skateboarders and spectators braved the nearly 100-degree heat on June 21 to participate in the global celebration of skateboarding known as Go Skateboarding Day. Skateboarders showed off their moves on ramps and rails donated by Townshend-based Catamount Ramps. Companies Vew-Do and Wat-aah also held demonstrations and donated products. Committee members of Brattleboro Area Skatepark is Coming (BASIC) cooked hotdogs and hamburgers. The skatepark's poet laureate, Lynn Martin, was honored for her work and poem, Freewheelin' Teens. BASIC organized...
Some theatrical revivals show us what things were like in the past. Others vividly speak to our lives today. First produced 50 years ago, Fire does both. On March 24, at 7:30 p.m., Bread & Puppet Theater will be coming to the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery in Brattleboro to perform one its very first productions, Fire. As Jon Mack, the director of Hooker-Dunham Theater, says, “Fire is a re-mounting of a show that was done some many years ago about...
Driving from Vermont on Interstate 91 to other southern New England states, one notices that fewer homes down there are shielded from road noise and pollution by trees. The highway verges tend to be clear cut. In recent years, this absence of trees has prompted Connecticut and Massachusetts to erect pricey and unattractive walls of wood or masonry to do some of what the trees used to do. Sadly, our local transportation officials are doing all they can to make...
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