DUMMERSTON-The controversy over political banners hung inside library windows of the Dummerston School has prompted...
LONDONDERRY-Vermont has a housing crisis - the state needs up to 36,000 new homes by...
BELLOWS FALLS-The Bellows Falls Community Bike Project, active in the village for 11 years, has...
BRATTLEBORO-As described by Adam Grinold, a decade ago, Windham County had the second-oldest population in...
With only three days remaining in their 21-day, maximum-allowed stay at Fort Dummer State Park's campground, Kayla and Travis Lavonte and their two cats are scrambling to find shelter - again. "We have to leave for seven nights but then we plan to come back," Kayla said. The couple has been camping since being evicted from the Quality Inn in mid-June. They are among the 70 households sheltered in six local motels who lost access to the pandemic-era emergency shelter...
The town of Halifax recently hosted COVID-19 vaccination clinics and ice cream socials. There are many people - and one dog - to thank for these very successful events. Selectboard Member Pete Silverberg proposed the clinics, and all board members approved. The kind and professional crews of Rescue Inc. brought their medical trailer and answered myriad questions and assuaged concerns about vaccine testing and safety. Joan Coarser and Laurel Copeland scooped the free ice cream provided by the Halifax Community...
Print Town: Brattleboro's Legacy of Words, published by the Vermont Historical Society with an introduction by Tom Bodett, will launch Wednesday, Dec. 9, with a Zoom event from 7 to 8 p.m. The first half of the launch will be moderated by Print Town Art Editor Stephanie Greene, a local writer whose parents founded and ran Brattleboro's famed Stephen Greene Press, along with Editor Michael Fleming, a freelance writer and longtime editor of Norton literary anthologies, and designer James F.
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