The Vermont Telecommunications Authority (VTA) and VTel Wireless have reached an agreement to provide broadband accessibility within the towns of Newfane, Westminster, Stratton, and Wardsboro by November 2012. Equipment installed to service those four communities will also provide expanded broadband coverage to areas within the towns of Putney, Townshend, and Dummerston by November, according to the VTA. More than 1,600 addresses will have access to fourth-generation (4G) wireless broadband service, according to the VTA. It will provide broadband service that...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present a free talk by artist M. Carmen Lane on Thursday, March 31, at 7 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live. Register at brattleboromuseum.org. Lane will discuss the BMAC exhibit “(í:se)Be Our Guest/Stolen,” an examination of the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous displacements and Black fugitive migrations, through the lens of the artist's Afro-Indigenous family history. Lane will explore the host/guest relationship, family fracturing and splintering, and the history of displacement of Black...
Mike Mrowicki has served since 2007 in the Vermont House of Representatives, where he represents Putney and Dummerston in the Windham-4 district. For more information about Mrowicki and his campaign for re-election, visit windham4.online. PUTNEY-As we head toward Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, one issue that we see - on the local scene and all the way up to Washington - is a national economy that can best be described as one of "have-nots and have-yachts." Locally, property-tax payers...
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