NEWFANE-There was a time when the 1825 jail house in Newfane would house up to...
BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members are proceeding with caution about if and how the town might step up...
MARLBORO-As a longtime volunteer and chair of the town's new cemetery commission, Marcia Hamilton annually...
BELLOWS FALLS-In one of three contested races, Paul Obuchowski won his bid for Village Trustees...
Named for the historic building that offers a panoramic view on downtown, Flat Iron Exchange has opened at 51 The Square, which will host its grand opening on Friday, May 16. Jana Bryan and her husband, Mark Kenney, formerly of Chester, purchased the Flat Iron Building last August and last month opened the coffee house, which they hope will function both as a source of caffeine and as a “third place” for the community, with a high proportion of couches...
Vocalist Jay Clayton will appear live at the Vermont Jazz Center on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m., as part of a tour celebrating her 80th birthday. She will be accompanied by the Ray Gallon Trio, with Ray Gallon on piano, Jay Leonhart on acoustic bass, and Billy Drummond on drums. An adventurous singer whose training and repertoire are deeply rooted in jazz standards, Clayton's dozens of recordings as a leader reveal a comfort with the Great American Songbook and...
The September/October centerfold of Adbusters magazine showed a female dancer atop the brass bull icon of lower Manhattan, the symbol of Wall Street. She is calm; her arms are outstretched. She is not quite Joan of Arc, but she conveys the power and grace of a superior consciousness rising from the back of the charging bull unaware that his time is up. Behind her, in a cloud of tear gas, a mob is in the throes of battle. The call...
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