BRATTLEBORO-After eight intense meetings to draft a new budget, the Selectboard has voted to recommend...
BRATTLEBORO-When Richard Berkfield graduated from the School for International Training in 2008, he could not...
BELLOWS FALLS-For more than two decades, residents and community leaders have been working on a...
BRATTLEBORO-On May 1, hundreds of people took to the streets of downtown Brattleboro to protect...
After eight years of studies into improving the quality of life for its seniors, the Brattleboro Housing Authority (BHA) is in the early stages of implementing a pilot care program to launch January 2011. The Seniors Aging Safely at Home (SASH) program, supports seniors living in their homes by building a team utilizing existing community organizations and resources. SASH operates in the spirit of a mutual aid agreement between fire departments, where departments agree to assist each other in emergencies.
Here goes Brattleboro with all the wonderful people who support children, women, vulnerable people and healthy living but not in their neighborhood. This stinks of the hysterical reactions to the proposed Crowell Lot skatepark: Lots of people with personal agendas blowing lots of smoke about how awful the proposed change will be. That is to say, it's a great project but just put it somewhere else. Someday, the facts will be indisputable: that you cannot continue to shunt the undesirable...
New England Youth Theatre (NEYT) invites the community to share their family immigration stories as a part of their production of Rags, which opens on Thursday, Dec. 6. “Everyone has a story,” NEYT Executive Director Hallie Flower said in a news release. “We want to open up our theater as a place for people to share how their ancestors came to this country.” As part of the celebration of the immigrant experience with Rags, the youth theater's holiday musical, NEYT...
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