Little Bread & Puppet state goes up against big nuke and the fed gummit.
What could go wrong?
AmÉe LaTour is a writer for nonprofits and lover of words and human beings. Recovery...
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Adair's essay is the best piece of writing I have seen in The Commons:
FLORENCE, MASS.-I just read with shock and awe, or just plain enthusiasm, a couple of...
Kris Pavek, a 71-year-old retired midwife and photographer, has often stayed in Brattleboro in summer...
Mount Snow's multimillion-dollar snow-making upgrade won't be finished for the upcoming ski season due to continued delays in the resort's EB-5 funding program, administrators have disclosed. An executive with Mount Snow parent company Peak Resorts, during a July 14 announcement of the company's fiscal year 2016 earnings, said the West Lake snow-making project remains on hold due to the “excruciatingly slow” federal EB-5 approval process that has kept $52 million in foreign investor money tied up in escrow. “We are...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) invite the public to join Art Costa for a cardboard-sculpture-making workshop on Saturday, Jan. 27, from 2 to 4 p.m. Inspired by Costa's own sculptures currently on display at the museum in an exhibit titled "Sounds Deep," this workshop will enable participants to discover the creative possibilities that can arise from this ubiquitous, recyclable material. Costa's artwork in "Sounds Deep" takes viewers down below the surface of the ocean, into a world of...
We are writing to the voters of Brookline, Jamaica, Newfane, and Townshend to ask: please vote yes on Tuesday, July 16 to allow Windham to leave the Leland and Gray Union Middle/High School District. Why are we asking to be released after 50 years of membership? We appreciate the opportunity to explain our reasons. When Windham joined the district in 1969, several things were made clear. Quoting from the minutes taken in Windham that day: “That students in the northern...
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