BELLOWS FALLS-In May, a community group will begin unveiling its work on a $37,000 study...
WINDHAM-Parents in the Windham School District, who sought via a lawsuit to have the district...
BRATTLEBORO-Talk to anybody about Vermont's housing crisis, and the subject of high construction costs will...
BRATTLEBORO-JoAnne Rogers has been a member of the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Auxiliary since 1993. "I...
One of the more interesting moments at Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday was learning that the town office has bats in its attic. Residents easily - and unanimously - voted $1,500 to mitigate the problem. Speaking of flying things, close to 150 Dummerston residents flipped the bird at the COVID-19 coronavirus and came out for Town Meeting at Dummerston School, almost the same number that came out last year when there was no worldwide pandemic panic or school board budget...
Along the Oceti Sakawin encampment, the signs read, “No guns, no drugs, no alcohol,” and all who entered were encouraged to spend as much time as possible by the sacred fire, a big bonfire constantly tended and scented with sacred cedar. Then we were given work to do. And there was much to do. At dawn each day, Lakota leaders held a water ceremony, in gratitude for the water that is essential to all life, and in dedication to the...
The weekend of Dec. 4 and 5 will bring together a dynamic collection of artists to share their work, song, and magical cranking devices in the celebration of the storytelling medium. Eric and Ines Zeller Bass of Sandglass Theater, along with Coni Richards, Brendan Taaffe, Dejah Leger, Anna Patton, Annie Winker, and Claire Dolan will pair song and story with rolling pictures. Crankies are scrolling illustrations, wound inside a wooden box and then hand-cranked so that the images move across...
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