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...
Gov. Peter Shumlin worked the packed American Legion banquet room on Linden Street July 9, shaking hands with a few of the more than 200 people gathered there for lunch. The group of businesspeople, lawmakers, planners, and media-types awaited news on the latest application process for the $10 million in economic development funds from Entergy for Windham County. The scene, replete with twinkling disco ball overhead, prompted one observer to remark, “Welcome to Studio 10 million.” The Agency of Commerce...
The recent revelations of genocide and the all-too-familiar accompanying atrocities in North Korea are obviously extremely disturbing, though not totally shocking given what we know about the leadership of that unfortunate state. If history is an indicator, it is unlikely that the United States or other Western powers will intervene in a meaningful way, particularly with North Korea in possession of a nuclear arsenal. The century's first genocide occurred in 1915 and was committed by Turkey against its Armenian minority,
We may think of Russia as the cold, frozen wasteland of Dr. Zhivago, but the Windham Orchestra's upcoming Russia is “exotic, warm, and fantastical,” according to a news release. The concert, which spotlights richly textured works of two renowned Russian composers, is set for Sunday, Feb. 11, at 3 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre on Main Street. Acknowledging that almost daily news headlines have focused our attention on Russia in recent months, Windham Orchestra Musical Director Hugh Keelan said in...
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