BRATTLEBORO-Most matriarchs observe Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May. But Guilford great-great-grandmother Shirley...
PUTNEY-After years of planning and navigating legal challenges, co-developers Windham-Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) and Burlington-based...
ROCKINGHAM-A crew from Hartgen Archeological Associates spent a week at the Rockingham Meeting House earlier...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) is proudly celebrating 50-plus years of bringing locally grown...
Frank Wadelton - also known as “Frank the Welder” - will soon move his Granger Street bicycle fabrication shop a few yards to the south. These plans are in response to a business need - he needs more manufacturing space, a showroom, and an office - and what Wadelton deems an economic and cultural need: an “adventure center” for electric-assist bicycle rentals and guides to local trails. Wadelton wants to make Bellows Falls an electric-bicycle destination. in 2006, Frank the...
On the surface, I seem an unlikely candidate to write about being happy. I am often sad and sometimes without an easily identifiable cause. I sigh a lot and have been known to say to God on many occasions, “Lord, it is so hard being human.” I know he knows what I am talking about, even though my life experience is like a banquet in comparison to so much of the real human suffering we hear about in the world.
Mariel Vandersteel and Joe Walsh say they are excited to be coming back to the Brattleboro area. After strong performances by Vandersteel last winter at the Northern Roots Festival and by Walsh recently with Darol Anger at Next Stage, they are joining forces with guitarist Eli West to carve out a unique sound on their New England Spring Tour. Drawing from their strong individual musical voices, the trio will collaborate on traditional American songs and tunes, Norwegian fiddle tunes (using...
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