WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-This weekend's opening of 2025's Ten Minute Play Festival (TMPF) at Actors Theatre...
BELLOWS FALLS-With a career spanning more than 50 years, Jorma Kaukonen has done it all.
BRATTLEBORO-June is recognized by the Alzheimer's Association as "Alzheimer's and Brain Health Awareness Month" (ABAM)
BRATTLEBORO-Former Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord and former Brooklyn, New York, Poet Laureate D. Nurkse...
Track construction work has begun on the New England Central Railroad and, as a result, bus service will substituted for Amtrak's Vermonter passenger train between Springfield, Mass., and St. Albans this summer. The Vermont Agency of Transportation said that train service between those two points will be replaced by a special transit coach service operated by Premier Coach of Milton. Premier will transport rail passengers between Springfield and St. Albans, beginning June 17 and continuing through Sept. 15, while construction...
Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery's resident acting teacher Jim Maxwell will return to teach a month-long Shakespeare Scene Study class through the month of January. He will be offering a free introductory workshop on Saturday, Dec. 17, from 1 to 3 p.m., in which students will select scenes and learn what to expect from the classes. After the introductory workshop, participants will meet twice a week in January on Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m., and Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7:30...
What is going on with the millions of Republican/conservative/Trumpist Americans who refuse the reality of public health? I continue to follow - in awe - the strange, ignorant, and hostile views of people who deny repeated realities. It feels completely counterintuitive to think that there are still Covid deniers, but those people are still out there. In a December 2020 survey, they comprised 13 percent of the United States population. Their explanations for the illnesses and deaths are thoroughly convoluted.
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