BRATTLEBORO-The name "Somethin' Else" refers to the 1958, desert-island-worthy recording by saxophonist Cannonball Adderley that...
BRATTLEBORO-New England Youth Theatre (NEYT) has come full circle with the naming of Ben Stockman...
BRATTLEBORO-An exhibition of paintings by Mary Wright and Ellen Maddrey, "Sensing Landscape," is now on...
BELLOWS FALLS-On Friday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m., an international concert series begins at the...
BYOD: Bring your own disinfectant. This advice may become de rigueur for any community gathering as the number of COVID-19 cases increases. “We want to make sure we're not overreacting,” said Windham Southeast Superintendent Lyle Holiday, “but that we're prepared if we need to react.” Holiday said sardonically that she might spray with disinfectant everyone who attends the upcoming annual WSESU meeting on March 17. Holiday's comment might be lighthearted, but the supervisory union's preparations to respond to potential spread...
Thank you for your column on the constitutional right to panhandling, an important issue. However, the discussion leaves out aspects of the issue that, to my knowledge, are always left out in such conversations. An ordinance against begging violates not only the right to free speech of the beggar but also that of the potential giver. Giving charity to a poor person is also a form of speech. The fact that other channels exist for the giver to support the...
Ian Hefele has finally realized his long-held dream of staging in America a work by South African writer Athol Fugard. For the next two weekends, March 16-18 and 23-25, Vermont Theater Company presents Fugard's The Road to Mecca at the Hooker-Dunham Theater, 139 Main St., in downtown Brattleboro. The play concerns a senior South African widow, Miss Helen, who has been working on an overgrown sculpture garden. Although a neighbor, pastor Marius, urges Helen to move to a senior home,
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