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The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...
BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
BRATTLEBORO-I was full of Christmas cheer as I took a trolley from Cambridge to Boston...
BELLOWS FALLS-For more than two decades, residents and community leaders have been working on a vision to transform an abandoned, polluted 8-acre former industrial site along the Connecticut River into a universally accessible community park. That vision has resulted in Riverfront Park, a beautiful green space in the center of the Village, on the west bank of the Connecticut River, with accessible hiking trails, meadows, benches, picnic tables, a pond, a labyrinth, and the only direct access to the river...
BRATTLEBORO-I want to express my support for those of my neighbors, the children at my daughter's Brattleboro school, their parents, from Venezuela, from Afghanistan, from other countries, who are asylum seekers, immigrants, and/or living in Vermont under temporary protected status. I support your being here. I am against any effort to adversely affect your being at home in our communities. I believe promises made to you by our government should be promises our government keeps. I imagine myself vulnerable and...
BRATTLEBORO-How does landscape painting intersect with environmental conservation? Two experts explore the possibilities at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 2 p.m. Moderated by BMAC Curator Emerita Mara Williams, the talk will feature visual artist Ilana Manolson, whose exhibit, "The River Between," is currently on view at the museum, and Connecticut River Conservancy Executive Director Rebecca Todd. Manolson is a painter, printmaker, and naturalist based in Concord, Massachusetts. She lives beside a river and...
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