WILLIAMSVILLE-For better or for worse, I have some 90 shows under my belt - if...
BRATTLEBORO-We set out on a fierce act of protest. This month in Brattleboro, beginning on...
MARLBORO-Marlboro Music's 2025 summer season concludes this weekend with the traditional Beethoven Choral Fantasy among...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts continues its Bandwagon Summer Series Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Putney Inn...
Climate change has taken center stage, from youth-led protests, to newspaper op-eds, to conversations at the Tuesday night Selectboard meetings. Most of these events have reflected a high-pitched, we're-all-going-to-die-and-nobody-cares urgency. On Nov. 19, in a meeting at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, the state legislative Climate Solutions Caucus struck a different, more-measured and practical, note: Climate change is here. This is what we're doing about it. This is how you can help. The meeting was one of many the caucus is...
The Vermont Arts Council selected John Willis to receive the 2018 Ellen McCulloch-Lovell Award in Arts Education. McCulloch-Lovell presented the award to Willis during a ceremony on Nov. 14 at the Vermont Statehouse. The award is given annually to a Vermont resident whose work has substantially improved student engagement in and knowledge of the arts and who has received significant professional recognition. In presenting the award, McCulloch-Lovell cited Willis' role as a professor of photography at Marlboro College, where he...
To: My Rockingham Select-persons, my village trustees, my municipal manager, my village police chief, and local friends: A very central issue on the Shelter proposed for Canal Street [story, page 1] is how the village was not consulted by the town regarding the location. This action on the part of town officials defies all reasonable standards of decorum or protocol. Explanations of this administrative discourtesy are encouraged. It is the village police department that stands first and foremost to be...
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