BRATTLEBORO — The Twilight Tea Lounge has been a great spot! Anneka Kindler upgraded the ambience and expanded the menu.
When out-of-towners visited I would take them there. I'm sorry to see it go!
Robin Rieske is facilitator of CSUR, a collaborative effort that includes Voices of Hope, Turning...
Em Megas-Russell, a licensed social worker, Brattleboro resident, and business owner, collaborated on the Community...
Lisa Jablow is a longtime animal advocate and a board member of Protect Our Wildlife...
Jeff Potter has edited The Commons since 2008 and has been working in and around...
Dissolving the multilayered societal and economic causes behind homelessness can feel daunting. But photographer Liz LaVorgna and a creative team have turned to a simple, perhaps mundane, first step to foster social change: sharing a cup of coffee. “If you're able to have a conversation, if you're able to connect with somebody, all these preconceived ideas of somebody that you have or had can kind of fall away and you can actually get to know somebody - and I think...
As a minister and a leader of the civil rights movement, Rev. James Bevel initiated, strategized, directed, and developed two of the major successes of the era: the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade and the 1965 Selma Voting Rights Campaign. In 1963, Birmingham's Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth had invited Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), to Birmingham, one of the South's most heavily segregated cities. SCLC's leaders accepted a challenge. “I assure...
The Vermont Theatre Company will hold auditions for their May production of Robert Anderson's “I Never Sang For My Father” to be directed by Bob Kramsky on Monday, March 2, at 7 p.m., at the Hooker-Dunham Theater in downtown Brattleboro. “I Never Sang For My Father” is the powerful drama of a middle-aged man who has to come to terms with his aged parents, an elderly mother whom he loves, and an 80-year-old father whom he never loved, as hard...
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