PUTNEY-Emma Paris is a creative force. The 19-year-old from Putney has been named Youth Poet...
They threw her in Yellowstone to save it– to control the deer, work unpaid, change...
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-In Donald Margulies's Collected Stories - the latest production of Actors Theatre Playhouse...
MARLBORO-Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal and guitarist Jason Ennis present a selection of music from the...
It was the best kept secret in town. For those plugged into social media, or subscribers to Town Clerk Laurie Frechette's news updates, the word was out about a surprise drive-by parade on May 16 for Don Hazelton to mark his 90th birthday. Judging by the dozens of decorated cars and trucks that lined up in Dummerston Center on an overcast Saturday morning, a lot of townspeople got the word. Everybody, apparently, except for Don. Don said he celebrated his...
This story states that the NECCA board knew “full well” that “the emotional resonance” of firing founders Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion “would upset the community” and that the coaches had warned the board in advance that they would resign should the board take this action. The Board of Trustees has a fiduciary duty to show care, obedience, and loyalty to the organization. In the midst of ongoing fundraising, confidence is a necessity, and rapid growth requires stability. It...
Conductor and pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn will discuss the writing of his father, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and their family's life in Cavendish in the 1980s in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro on Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. His talk, “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Writing the Red Wheel in Vermont,” part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series, is free and open to the public. The next Brattleboro talk is “Rumi, A Soul on Fire” with Dartmouth professor Nancy Jay...
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