BRATTLEBORO-Less than two months before the close of its fiscal year, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is...
ROCKINGHAM-The town Selectboard and the village trustees of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River have decided...
PUTNEY-In May, two friends, both residents of Putney Meadows senior housing, were walking on the...
BRATTLEBORO-Bill Holiday was born and raised here in Brattleboro. He went to Windham College, and...
Residents overwhelmingly preferred rehabilitating the Sweet Pond dam over replacing the 1920s-era structure with a new dam during a public comment meeting last week. Engineers from firm DuBois & King and members of the Department of Forests, Parks, Recreation (FPR) presented five potential scenarios for the dam at Sweet Pond State Park. Last year, engineers from the state Dam Safety Section deemed the structure unsafe. The state prefers demolishing dams like Sweet Pond, since removal saves the state money and...
I remember when refrigerators were called “iceboxes.” Most people didn't have electricity. Therefore, keeping perishable food any length of time was a problem. If you lived in a house with a cellar, people often stored food there for a short time. If that was not an option, an icebox was necessary. These boxes were about 5 feet tall and about 2 feet wide. They had short legs at the corners and resembled a piece of furniture. The box had a...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts presents a double bill with Armo and JMMR (Jordan McLean's Musical Resistance) as part of the Bandwagon Summer Series on Saturday, July 19, at 6 p.m. at Putney Inn Field, 57 Putney Landing Rd. Armo is led by longtime collaborators from the Brooklyn-based Afrobeat band Antibalas. The ensemble includes a lineup of Jordan McLean (trumpet/percussion), Marcus Farrar (vocals/percussion), Nikhil P. Yerawadekar (guitar/keys), Kevin Raczka (drums), Justin Kimmel (bass), and Dave "Smoota" Smith (trombone/keys). Their performances "celebrate and...
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