Wonderful article - thanks. It prompted me to listen to Feathers tonight for the first time in a few years; the group still sounds great.
I'm going to look for Ruth Garbus's solo music online now!
BELLOWS FALLS-Fellow citizens, I write to you with a request founded in feelings of love,
BRATTLEBORO-I've been a supporter of Emilie Kornheiser since she first ran for Legislature. Now, however,
Shelby Brimmer is the owner, with Paul Martocci, of Martocci's Restaurant on Elliot Street in...
DEERFIELD, MASS.-Two years later, Democrats are still furious over Roe v. Wade being overturned. But...
Property taxes are going up. For Fiscal Year 2019, Brattleboro landowners will pay $1.2746 per $100 of assessed value for their municipal property tax. The Selectboard approved this rate at the July 3 regular meeting. Town Manager Peter B. Elwell noted this is 5.51 cents more than last year's rate. It's also more than the original budget called for. During the FY19 budget talks, Elwell and the Selectboard supported a 3.6-cent increase. Elwell explained the extra 1.91 cents. At March's...
Like a lot of people in our community, I'm sure, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about life and love and grief and death recently, as we've all been rocked by the news of yet another tragic death by suicide. I know that for many young ones who were close to Colby Donovan, it was their very first experience of such loss, and I grieve for the bit of their innocence that they lost as they absorbed the...
The Green Mountain Mummers, having been prevented from performing for two years, are returning to Windham County towns to present their symbolic death-and-resurrection street theater, rain or shine, in six locations. The group of 10 (mostly) Windham County residents is probably the oldest continuing sword dance and mumming troupe in the United States. Founded in 1975, the group operates in the manner of the old English morris and sword dancers from which the dances were originally collected - they meet...
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