Brattleboro is getting a shining Starr who has led, inspired, and ignited Building Brighter Futures for Broome, an agency that offers early childhood literacy strategies and supports!
Thank you, Starr LaTronica, for sharing your gifts and passion!
Leslie Zucker is a certified professional life coach, a facilitator of a women's group, and...
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block,
Kerry Secrest serves as honorary consul of Lithuania to Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-A heartfelt thank you to...
BRATTLEBORO-When I worked at a major airport, I learned to refer to people on airplanes...
Brattleboro has enjoyed continuous library service since 1821, when local citizens created a private lending library. Later, in 1842, to continue to build its collections, it became a subscription library. Finally, in 1882, a group of townspeople created a committee to recommend that Brattleboro's Town Meeting vote town funds to support a free, public library. This act spurred Brattleboro businessman George J. Brooks - who had built the Brooks House Hotel in 1872 - to donate funds to erect the...
I was so pleased to see the Rockingham Free Public Library preservation grant announced in The Commons. Emily Zervas, who is moving on to become director of the Putney Public Library, has served our library so well as reference and historical collections librarian. Few people realize all the skills she brought to the RFPL, which she will now take to her new position. In addition to successful grant writing that has dramatically enhanced our historical collection, she has been a...
Popular screenings of Met Opera Live in HD, National Theatre Live, Bolshoi Ballet Only in Cinemas, and Exhibition on Screen bring some of the world's greatest music, theater, dance, and art to the Latchis Theatre. Latchis Arts announces the slate of Metropolitan opera, National Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet, and Exhibition on Screen simulcast offerings for the 2017-18 season. The ever-popular season of Metropolitan Opera Live in HD presentations opens on Saturday, Oct. 7, at 1 p.m., with the series' first-ever broadcast...
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