PUTNEY-After years of planning and navigating legal challenges, co-developers Windham-Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and Burlington-based...
BRATTLEBORO-Most matriarchs observe Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. But Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley...
ROCKINGHAM-A crew from Hartgen Archeological Associates spent a week at the Rockingham Meeting House earlier...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) is proudly celebrating 50-plus years of bringing locally grown...
Water rolls downstream... and so does everything carried by its current. Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Irene raged through Vermont towns on Aug. 28, carrying away propane tanks, cars, houses, and a few kitchen appliances. In the Deerfield Valley, much of what the flood scooped up landed in the Harriman Reservoir, also known as Lake Whitingham. “We're Vermonters,” said lake volunteer Mark Pedersen, who spent six solid days of hauling debris from the lake with a pontoon boat. “This is how...
On Saturday, May 30, at noon, Jesse Peters will come to the Putney Public Library to kick off his “Tour350: Music, Words, Images Library Tour.” In the spring of 2010, Peters embarked on a cross-country bike trip with the goals of completing a solo, self-contained ride, playing as many gigs as possible, and raising awareness of climate change. That August he crossed the Sierra Nevadas into California, having ridden more than 4,000 miles and performed about 25 times, in settings...
Caitlin Adair may be “wise in the arts of gardening, homemade food, and medicine,” as her bio states, but her version of the silvicultural history of the Vermont forest is absurd. Her statement that Vermont was ”clear cut” once, pursuant to the whim of King George III for ”ships, masts, and to create empire” bears less resemblance to the facts than a Superman comic. Anyone familiar with the saga of the King's Pines knows how very few of the scattered...
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