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...
For the past few years, Town Manager Peter B. Elwell has worked to steer the Selectboard away from putting out proverbial fiscal fires and toward preventing emergencies in the first place. Small municipalities too often replace important town vehicles and infrastructure only after they've failed or have come close to it, or fixing buildings only after they've begun to crumble. This budget season, Elwell and his staff continue that effort with their short-term goals - recommendations for the fiscal year...
Sometime in the late 1980s, then–Wilmington Town Manager Sonia Alexander asked if I would paint the 1938 flood level on the side of the Town Hall. I was happy to do so, and it immediately drew interest of locals and visitors as we thought about an important part of our history. A few days after Tropical Storm Irene I checked with the town and was given permission (encouraged, actually) to paint the new, higher level. It marked the hardship that...
The Hilltop Montessori School, along with its partners Guilford Sound and the Catherine Dianich Gallery, are waiting for eleven guest quilters from Gee's Bend, Ala. There will be a Gala Gallery Opening Reception on Thursday, Oct. 1, at 6 p.m., at the Catherine Dianich Gallery in downtown Brattleboro. Gala attendees will have the opportunity to quilt a Gee's Bend quilt alongside Gee's Bend quilters, be the first to view the Gee's Bend quilt exhibit, and meet the amateur actors who...
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