BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced...
BRATTLEBORO-Greg Lesch. the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, died Feb. 19,
Many people in Windham County look on in frustration as they watch the police arrest...
ROCKINGHAM-The town of Rockingham recently announced that the Proposed Amendments to the town's Zoning and...
A Nov. 7 fire that caused extensive damage to four apartments at 16-38 Valgar St. has been determined to be suspicious in nature. A joint statement on Nov. 11 from Fire Chief Michael Bucossi and Police Chief Michael Fitzgerald said that investigators from the Brattleboro Fire Department, Brattleboro Police Department, and Vermont State Police “have been working continuously since the morning of the fire to determine an origin and cause, and conducting interviews to gather information.” As of press time,
The newly-formed Rock River Players present Thornton Wilder's Our Town Aug. 27-30 at Williamsville Hall. In its review of the 1938 opening on Broadway, The New York Times hailed Our Town as “hauntingly beautiful,” endowed with “immortal truth” with its understated, but resonant depiction of a quest we all share - to find love and fulfillment, and to appreciate life's abundance and minutiae. In writing the Pultizer Prize-winning Our Town, Wilder joined others, such as Robert Frost, who searched for...
In early November, a delivery of nuclear waste en route to a “disposal site” in northern Germany met with some unanticipated obstacles. Dozens of farmers lined the route determined to block roadways with their tractors, trees and stumps cut down by protestors blocked the routes, and more than 3,000 people gathered in protest outside the site deemed acceptable to bury containers of highly toxic nuclear waste. Several times police had stop and to clear flocks of sheep and goats from...
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