BRATTLEBORO-Carolyn Pieciak can tell you how she made peanut butter, jelly, and Fluff sandwiches for...
BRATTLEBORO-Medically, the only two ways in which white patients and Black patients differ are skin...
BELLOWS FALLS-Three Vermont hydroelectric dams and generating stations on the Connecticut River in Wilder, Bellows...
BRATTLEBORO-If there can be an obituary for a piece of legislation, then this is it:
Since the fire that destroyed McNeill's Brewery and took Ray McNeill's life, scores of people who knew the man, his pub, and his product have stopped to talk about him and remember. An award-winning brewer, McNeill was dubbed “the Bohemian Brewer of Brattleboro” in Microbrews magazine, where the author wrote, “His brews are not quite heavenly, but close enough to it that you might hear a harp playing in the background when you sip one of his brews.” But this...
What is going on here? The Newfane Selectboard has accepted a petition for a re-vote on the same Town Office Building Bond issue that was just defeated in August by a large majority of the voters. To accept a petition at all for a second chance to reverse the majority's decisive vote is a slap in the face to the voters of Newfane. To accept such a petition even though the board had knowledge that an unknown number of signatures...
The Brattleboro Literary Festival and Brattleboro Words Project will feature South Newfane poet William Mundell (1912–97) in a two-part program on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro. The evening begins with a 6 p.m. roundtable discussion and continues with a 7 p.m. lecture and reading of Mundell's poetry. This is the fourth program in the Words Project series on area authors from the past. In previous years, the Project has featured Lucy Terry Prince, Mary and Royall...
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