BRATTLEBORO-Under a gigantic maple tree at the site of an old mink farm along the...
BRATTLEBORO-Rite Aid expects to close or sell off all five of its Vermont locations, including...
WHITINGHAM-The federal government has ended a settlement - which was intended to address and prevent...
BRATTLEBORO-Six months after the Selectboard put the brakes on free Sunday parking, plans are in...
“It all comes full circle.” That's how ReNew Building Materials & Salvage founder and former executive director Erich Kruger describes the experience of liquidating the remains of the organization he once led. Kruger, who now runs Deconstruction Works, a building demolition and reuse cooperative, has been given the job of finding a home for the hundreds of cans of paint and the thousands of scraps of lumber, ceiling beams, windows, doors, and assorted other building ephemera that were left behind...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present The Seamus Egan Project, featuring the founding member of the seminal Irish-American band Solas, at Next Stage on Friday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. Beginning with tunes from his groundbreaking 1996 album When Juniper Sleeps - which was the impetus for the formation of Solas - through music from his 20-year career with that iconic band, and adding some brand new tunes, Egan, with a band of friends and musical guests, will...
In the past weeks, we've seen hundreds of thousands of people rise up in Arab nations across the Middle East, in what has been called The Awakening. The people's willingness to risk their lives to achieve democracy has inspired many of us. Their struggle has given me an acute appreciation for the freedoms that we tend to take for granted. But The Awakening has also prompted me to look more closely and critically at what we do have, to think...
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