BRATTLEBORO — RE: “Guilford's fire station needs paint” [Town and Village, Dec. 5]:
A well-reported article. I drive by the Guilford Fire Department all the time and wondered why it was blue.
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Good day to you! While all eyes remain firmly on Hurricane Irma for impacts to the East Coast of the United States, we have some rainy weather to slog through before we break out into a nicer weekend and early-next-week period. Speaking of Irma, it's highly unlikely we will have a direct impact here in southern Vermont. However, by the middle of next week or so, some remnant rain and wind is possible up in these parts. For now, it's...
Amherst College professor Judith Frank will explore the unique approaches taken by Edward P. Jones in writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World, in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on June 6 at 7 p.m. Frank's talk, “The Known World and the Literary Character,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public. (This talk was rescheduled from March 7.) The Known World, which won the...
My friend Sarah Ovenden and I run a small company called Roots on the Rails. A couple of times a year, we book moderately well-known musicians (the “roots” part) who can draw a crowd of 50 or so fans, charter five vintage, privately-owned passenger railroad cars (the “rails” part), and set out to visit some cool places that are served by passenger train. We've done 45 or so trips since 2003, with musicians ranging from Cowboy Junkies to Ramblin' Jack...
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