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NEWFANE-There was a time when the 1825 jail house in Newfane would house up to...
BRATTLEBORO-Selectboard members are proceeding with caution about if and how the town might step up...
MARLBORO-As a longtime volunteer and chair of the town's new cemetery commission, Marcia Hamilton annually...
BELLOWS FALLS-In one of three contested races, Paul Obuchowski won his bid for Village Trustees...
When Charlie Slate drove his wife to work on Christmas morning in 1981 only to realize no restaurants were open, he didn't foresee the free breakfast he offered to cook the next year would attract 50 people. Or grow into an annual gathering. Or live on after his death. Or that it would anticipate feeding upward of 1,000 people and mark its 40th year this year - and that it would likely be its last because of the snowballing success.
DOVER-Vermont stands as a beacon of community values. Yet beneath this facade, our education system has harbored inequities for decades that undermine these very principles. Enter Act 127-a legislative commitment to Vermont's constitutional guarantee of equity, opportunity, and fairness for every child in our state. However well-intentioned, Vermont's education funding system has inadvertently perpetuated inequities across our diverse landscapes. Rural, impoverished, and diverse districts have borne the brunt of this outdated model, and have struggled to provide the same level...
BRATTLEBORO-Artist Nye Ffarrabas and exhibition curator Mark Waskow will discuss the artist's life and career in a public talk at BMAC on Thursday, May 8, at 5:30 p.m. In the early and mid-1960s, artist Nye Ffarrabas was part of New York City's experimental and creative laboratory known as Fluxus, which encouraged the view that life and art were inseparable, that art was not an end-product but rather a creative energy and process. Now 92 and a resident of Brattleboro, Ffarrabas...
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