BRATTLEBORO-I recently spoke with jazz saxophonist and composer Jeff Lederer, who splits his time between...
BRATTLEBORO-When they reflect on the 10th anniversary of 118 Elliot, John Loggia and Lissa Weinmann,
PUTNEY-Natalie Dreyer, the new executive director of Next Stage Arts, brings with her a wealth...
PUTNEY-Yellow Barn's 56th summer season continues this week with four performances and a masterclass with...
What must shift within for someone to decide to live the Slow Life? The third annual Slow Living Summit, a spin-off of the Strolling of the Heifers, explores this question June 5 to 7. According to Martin C. Langeveld, marketing director of Strolling of the Heifers and coordinator of the Slow Living Summit, the Summit represents the serious side of the Stroll. Slowness, in this case, is a metaphor for sustainability and mindfulness, Langeveld told his audience at the monthly...
Brattleboro-area artist Marilyn Allen will present an exhibit of recent paintings, “It's time...” at the Oxbow Gallery, 275 Pleasant St., in Northampton, Massachusetts. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Nov. 11, from 5 to 8 pm. The show, which will be on display in the back room gallery, runs through Nov. 27. Allen, who is primarily self-taught, launched into painting when she moved to an old house in the deep woods of Vermont in the early 1990s, according...
Just for a minute, let's look at the Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee plant the way its leadership likely does - through a lens where the revelations of 2010 seem overblown and really don't mean much at all. After all, the plant still produces electricity. Committed and capable employees still feel strongly that their actions keep the place running safely. Even the well-publicized leak of the radioactive isotope tritium - found naturally in the cosmos and used in everyday applications like...
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