GRAFTON-Among the summer arts happenings gracing green hills with theater, fine art, craft, circus, puppetry,
DUMMERSTON-All are invited to the opening reception of "Watercolors by Linda Rood" at the Dummerston...
GUILFORD-Pride began with rebellion. Kopkind Colony, the living memorial to the late radical journalist Andrew...
MARLBORO-Bard Owl, the duo of T. Breeze Verdant and Annie Landenberger, will perform a benefit...
The Vermont Legislature is considering whether to allow continued pandemic-era flexibility in how and when the state’s 247 cities and towns decide local leaders, spending, and special articles. Lawmakers passed several bills in the past two years letting communities make short-term, Covid-safe changes to Town Meeting — traditionally held on or around the first Tuesday in March — and to gather municipal governing boards solely online. “The citizens of Vermont should be able to protect their health, safety, and welfare,”
Fred Eaglesmith's cult status has never been more threatened. Bellows Falls' Roots on the River Festival, now going into its 11th year this weekend, June 10-13, was built for and around Eaglesmith, the Canadian singer, songwriter, rocker, humorist, poet of the rural life and all-around entertainer. Through venue changes, heatstroke, clouds, rain and mud, the festival's one constant has always been change. “It's been going a long time and it's changed and changed and changed,” Eaglesmith said. “Didn't it start...
Our board listened with great interest to Jill Stahl Tyler's 45-minute testimony arguing against delay of forced mergers. We would be derelict in our duty if we did not correct the record. In her testimony, Tyler quoted teachers at Brattleboro Union High School who said, “Dummerston students are not as prepared as Oak Grove students [one of Brattleboro's elementary schools]” and attributed Brattleboro students' success to tutoring programs that other schools did not have. We disagree. As Tyler mentioned, our...
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