BELLOWS FALLS-Founded in 1995, Parks Place Community Resource Center is celebrating its 30th anniversary still...
MANCHESTER-The Vermont-based fly-fishing company Orvis is now facing pressures "at a pace that we haven't...
BRATTLEBORO-Representative Town Meeting members met in a special session on May 27 and approved a...
BRATTLEBORO-Great-great-grandmother Shirley Squires is also a great, great fundraiser. The 94-year-old Guilford resident arrived at...
Birthday luncheon served for December's seniors BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Senior Center and the Brattleboro Senior Meals Program host their December birthday luncheon celebration on Thursday, Dec. 12, at 11:30 a.m. at the Gibson-Aiken Center, 207 Main St. Join them for appetizers and punch, with barbecued chicken, Brussels sprouts, and sweet potato wedges for lunch, and cake and ice cream for dessert. Those with birthdays in December are invited to celebrate the occasion by sitting at the birthday table; their...
As with the several other courses in photography previously taught at the school, the photography class offered by the In-Sight Photography Project at Leland & Gray Middle and High School last fall did not come with much of a pre-arranged agenda. Michael Riley, a former AmeriCorps Vista employee of In-Sight who now works as one of the Brattleboro nonprofit's 10 dedicated volunteer teachers, listened to the students who signed up and developed a program around their interests. Riley's focus: to...
I was raised on a 100-acre dairy farm in Ohio. I milked the cows before I walked two miles to school, and I milked the cows after I walked back again. Way back, I'm part Indian. Her name was Mary Silverheels, and it was a traveling Methodist minister on horseback who married her. There's been a Mary in every generation since. Frank was from Ohio, too. That's where we met. He was stationed here during the war, and he said...
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