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Arts

BMH, BMAC team up in ‘Art for the Heart’

Exhibits of top-notch regional artwork to grace the walls of cardiology suite
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 — Issue 220

Arts

Mammals headline a day of folk rock

By
Sheryl Hunter

BELLOWS FALLS-“Comin’ down off summer / Comin’ down off fall / All I got’s a...

Making it real

By
Annie Landenberger

SOUTH NEWFANE-Out on country roads from South Newfane to Brookline, artists and craftspeople use their...

Coming home

By
Robert F. Smith

BELLOWS FALLS-When singer/songwriter Michael Veitch returns to his hometown of Bellows Falls as part of...

'Stitching Strength,' a documentary about ALS, screens at Next Stage

PUTNEY-The Center for Solace and the ALS Association will host a special community film screening...

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Filling the pool

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Olga Peters
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 — Issue 191

Rank the quality of life in Windham County. Does it garner a green puke face, or a happy thumbs up? This was the question posed to a full house last Friday at the Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategy (SeVEDS) group's launch of the public input phase for building a regional economic plan. Audience members completed a 10-question survey about their quality of life and place. Similar to patient pain charts found in doctors' offices, the happy thumbs-up face represented the...

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School of Dance brings “City Lights” to small town Brattleboro

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 — Issue 305

Tickets are on sale now for “City Lights,” the annual spring dance performance presented by Company of Muses in association with Brattleboro School of Dance. For the last two weekends in May, Brattleboro School of Dance students, faculty and alumni will perform a varied program of original choreography on the theme of life in cities at the New England Youth Theatre. Dance styles include modern, jazz, ballet, tap, and ballroom. Some pieces will be the same each evening, while solo...

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Voices

Why do so many people rely on SNAP?

By
Robyn Stires
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 — Issue 839

Robyn Stires is the director of Mercy Ministries Food Pantry at Agape Christian Fellowship in Brattleboro, where she has run the program for the past 12 years. She also hosts a podcast, "Blooming in a Cage." BRATTLEBORO-During the Great Depression, hunger was visible. People stood in long breadlines, and the government began buying surplus food from farmers to feed struggling families - the first steps toward what we now call SNAP. As someone who runs a modern day breadline, I...

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