WILLIAMSVILLE-For better or for worse, I have some 90 shows under my belt - if...
BRATTLEBORO-We set out on a fierce act of protest. This month in Brattleboro, beginning on...
MARLBORO-Marlboro Music's 2025 summer season concludes this weekend with the traditional Beethoven Choral Fantasy among...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts continues its Bandwagon Summer Series Saturday, Aug. 16, at the Putney Inn...
It wasn't quite an Irish wake, since the guest of honor was still very much among the living. But the Guinness and the stories flowed at the law office of Thomas Costello last Thursday as the friends and colleagues of Timothy O'Connor gathered to pay homage and to salute his 50 years of service as an attorney and public official in Brattleboro. The 74-year-old O'Connor, who has worked as a lawyer in town since 1961, retired on April 1. Aside...
The Leland & Gray Players celebrate its 19th season with Hats Off 2015 on March 6 and 7 in the Dutton Gymnasium on the Leland & Gray campus on Route 30. An eclectic parade of music, dance, and comedy, Hats Off offers Leland & Gray Players in grades 7 through 12 an opportunity to select what they want to perform, to display their strengths, to hone new skills, and to discover different ways to contribute to the performance. Many students...
Everyone now recognizes Cecil, the majestic lion who roamed the Zimbabwean savannah until he was lured into danger by an American hunter who paid megabucks to kill him. Cecil's death set the Internet on fire and garnered huge amounts of mainstream media attention. The Doris Day Animal League demanded “Justice for Cecil,” and the Empire State Building put his regal face on its urban façade as if he were part of a guerilla marketing campaign. A bill introduced in Congress...
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