BRATTLEBORO-Lynn Levine's lifelong appreciation for music and nature, coupled with her personal history of anxiety...
BRATTLEBORO-St. Michael's Episcopal Church recently announced a post-pandemic rekindling of its children choir program that...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Theatre Company will be hosting auditions on Monday, Sept. 30, at 6 p.m., in...
BRATTLEBORO-How does landscape painting intersect with environmental conservation? Two experts explore the possibilities at the...
How to Stall an Economy 101? Have a population where many of the breadwinners send what could be disposable income to pay debts like student loans. Congressman Peter Welch, D-Vt., announced Monday that he and more than 100 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have launched efforts to block the scheduled doubling of Federal Direct Stafford Student Loan interest rates. Welch estimates that the increase could tack another $11,000 onto 20-year repayment costs for some Vermont college students who...
The affordable housing article presents developers, past Selectboard members, and other town employees as progressive and compassionately concerned about the homeless and low-income residents, and those of us questioning the project as troublemakers who look down on the poor and needy. But it's a farce to call an $11.7 million project affordable and progressive! That construction fee breaks down to $468,000 per apartment, which is outrageous. Not only that, but residents at the three already-existing Windham & Windsor Housing Trust...
Puppeteer Brad Shur visits from Boston to present “The Magic Soup and Other Stories” at Sandglass Theater in Putney on Saturday, Feb. 2. Uncle Murray is coming over for dinner, but there's no food in sight! A young man's search for a family recipe brings folk tales to life in the fast-food-filled kitchen of his bachelor pad. Based on a collection of traditional Yiddish stories, “The Magic Soup” teaches that it is those with wit, humor and imagination who have...
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