Congratulations, Robbs!
You are some of the hardest working people I know, and you deserve every maple product sale you get from this opportunity and others!
Rick Gordon was the founding director of the Compass School, which operated in Westminster from...
BRATTLEBORO-Have you been to 69A Elliot St. yet? Please stop in soon! It's such a...
BRATTLEBORO-I am a Connecticut-born Yankee American, second-generation Irish immigrant, raised-Catholic, 62-year-old woman working in Brattleboro.
DUMMERSTON-Without wanting to validate Trump's demonization of America's shockingly large homeless population, I would like...
With a closing scheduled for July 14, the River Garden, at 157 Main St., is poised to have new ownership. The team behind the Whetstone Station Restaurant and Brewery plans to purchase the approximately-6,000-square-foot building and patio from the nonprofit Strolling of the Heifers. Co-owner Tim Brady said the restaurant and brewery, at 36 Bridge St., has needed a space for larger events for some time since it is not configured to host celebrations such as wedding receptions. Turning the...
After a nationwide search, violist Ashleigh Gordon has been selected as the Brattleboro Music Center's new artist in residence. Gordon will spend up to two years engaged with the BMC, with an estimated two months each year on site. She will work with BMC faculty, ensemble leaders, and students to explore new pieces and to expand current curriculum and performance programs featuring lesser-known and -heard composers and musicians of color. The goal of the BMC Residency Program is to create...
As you anguish over recent events in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas, let me be blunt. The prospect of state-sponsored violence against black and brown people by law enforcement in Vermont looms ever-present. Now is not the time to anguish, but to act! The single-most-important constructive action to reduce this threat in Vermont is to ensure that every sworn law-enforcement officer understands negative, implicit racial bias - the attitudes and stereotypes that unconsciously affect our understanding, actions, and decisions...
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