BRATTLEBORO-Last week, the Vermont Legislature adjourned after passing a controversial education reform bill that many...
WINDHAM-Approximately 40 people gathered at the Windham Meeting House on June 17 for "What's Possible,
BRATTLEBORO-Three school districts will begin their summer meals programs, distributing free, weekly meal kits to...
WESTMINSTER-After completing its 25th school year of operation, The Compass School recently and abruptly announced...
In spite of inclusion in the Rockingham Town Plan, and a long association with both boards in the town of Rockingham and village of Bellows Falls, the Bellows Falls Historical Society (BFHS) has found itself in the position of having to defend one of two ongoing projects currently in varying phases of completion. BFHS members say they are baffled as to the boards' sudden interest in the Wyman-Flint building, part of a group of historic structures associated with the beginning...
The pursuit of happiness is rarely linear, nor is it a quest with a final destination we can identify. This theme runs through English playwright Alan Ayckbourn's fast-paced comedy of the well-to-do Stratton family in The Time of My Life, playing at the Actors Theatre Playhouse for nine performances from Sept. 12 through Sept. 28, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Often compared to Noel Coward and Harold Pinter, Ayckbourn has written and produced more than 80 plays over...
There is nothing quite like serendipity. April 29, 1975 is the day that the last U.S. helicopters took off from the South Vietnam capital of Saigon, and returned home. April 29 also happened to be the day that two local men very much involved in the Vietnam War, Alan Carter and Dr. Thomas Hoskins, visited my social studies class at Brattleboro Union High School. Carter had gone to South Vietnam as an embassy worker, while Hoskins had gone as a...
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