NEWFANE-A relative newcomer on the venue scene, Music at Union Hall (MAUH), a Newfane-based concert...
BRATTLEBORO-It promises to be an afternoon of humanitarian support and fine music as a host...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) launches its winter-spring season of classes, starting in mid-September. Most...
BRATTLEBORO-On Saturday, Sept. 13, at 3 p.m., ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., hosts...
Instead of giving your beloved a box of chocolates on St. Valentine's Day, why not let a puppy do it? The Windham County Humane Society is holding its first-ever “Valentine's Day Puppy-grams” fundraiser. For a donation of $50, a puppy - accompanied by a human volunteer - will visit your loved one at their home or workplace in Brattleboro, Dummerston, Guilford, Newfane, Putney, and Vernon. “The recipient will have a half an hour to enjoy the puppy - and the...
What do you do when your large abstract paintings don't fit in your new, small, French apartment and you want to make art? You get a small easel and some tubes of paint and you begin to explore on canvas your new environs. So was the case, according to a news release, for Peter Van der Does, who chose to set up in the streets of France to capture the scenes of his daily life. The public may view the...
I admit, the presence of the many street people in Brattleboro can be very disturbing to some. I understand that extreme poverty, severe mental illness, and opioid-use disease are not pretty, not easy to witness. However, there are different ways of dealing with this problem, and printing an anonymous letter from business owners who are afraid to use their own names is not a helpful or productive way to approach a national crisis. Brattleboro is a tiny part of the...
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