BRATTLEBORO — Visit our slide show of photos from the 2013 Strolling of the Heifers parade, which took place June 8.
BRATTLEBORO — Visit our slide show of photos from the 2013 Strolling of the Heifers parade, which took place June 8.
PUTNEY-After years of planning and navigating legal challenges, co-developers Windham-Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and Burlington-based...
BRATTLEBORO-Most matriarchs observe Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. But Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley...
ROCKINGHAM-A crew from Hartgen Archeological Associates spent a week at the Rockingham Meeting House earlier...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) is proudly celebrating 50-plus years of bringing locally grown...
Several years after being detected here, the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis, EAB) continues to munch on a potential feast of more than 150 million ash (Fraxinus) trees in Vermont. That's 5 to 7 percent of the state's trees on average or about 1 in 12 trees, although in some areas, such as the Champlain Islands, the number is more like 40 percent. Losing this many trees would clearly have a significant impact, but there's still time to plan proactively...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) invites the public to a conversation with photographer Susan Mikula and curator Charlie Hunter about "Island," an exhibit featuring Mikula's images of the historically rich, 30-acre so-called island in Bellows Falls, Vermont. On display at BMAC until Feb. 9, named for a giant shelf of bedrock forcing the Connecticut River to make an abrupt eastward hitch in Bellows Falls, "Island" features dream-like images. Mikula achieved her ghost-like images, which were created specifically for...
I was impressed by the turnout and the energy of the recent Brattleboro Selectboard Candidates forum to which I was lucky enough to have been invited. The grassroots energy that has been ignited by recent turns in national politics is clearly being seen locally with an increase in protests, vocal support for historically underrepresented populations, and initiatives for ballot questions put before the voters. At the forum, that energy resulted in some questions that were difficult for me to answer,
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