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...
With this year's session of the Vermont Legislature in the rear view mirror, local lawmakers took the opportunity to tout what got done in Montpelier at a breakfast put on by the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce at the Brattleboro Retreat on May 23. Most of the Windham County delegation was present, except for Sen. Peter Galbraith and Reps. David Deen, D-Putney; Richard Marek, D-Newfane; Charles Goodwin, D-Weston; and Matt Trieber, D-Bellows Falls. Here's some of what the delegation worked...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present a free talk by sculptor William Ransom on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. via Zoom and Facebook Live. Ransom will discuss the BMAC exhibit “Keep Up/Hold Up.” In a statement accompanying the exhibit, the artist explains the origins of the title. “I am measured first by my blackness,” Ransom writes. “Our national story predetermines through the weight of white supremacy and its deliberately established structures how my very existence is...
The writer is chair of the Selectboard of Windham, where he serves as the town's road commissioner. WINDHAM-Heather Chase has kept our community of Windham well informed about legislation being considered in Montpelier. She has met in person with Windham residents, attended our community events, and has submitted articles regularly to our community newsletter. This summer, she has been actively involved in working directly with residents of our town who received very large increases in their property taxes this year.
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