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Arts

Snake Mountain Bluegrass Band to play benefit concert for Halifax Community Hall

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 — Issue 220

HALIFAX — The Snake Mountain Bluegrass Band is trekking down from Addison County to perform at the Halifax Community Hall, 20 Brook Rd. in West Halifax Village.

The band last played here to a full house in October 2012, helping raise funds for a new roof for the historic 1844 building. Catch them here again on Sunday, Sept. 15, from 2 to 4 p.m., and help preserve the hall for future generations.

Three young women from Addison County - the talented Connor Sisters - join the band for a special performance delivering gospel-style and country/bluegrass classics.

Arts

Secrets and motives, tensions and suspicions

By
Annie Landenberger

WILLIAMSVILLE-The Rock River Players (RRP) seem to be making a name as producers of new...

‘One of the things that makes jazz really special is connectivity’

By
Eugene Uman

BRATTLEBORO-The Emerging Artist Festival (EAF) is one of the cornerstones of the Vermont Jazz Center's...

Tasha Tudor Society wins publication award

MARLBORO-The journal of the nonprofit Tasha Tudor Society won first place in the Newsletters &

Documentary focuses on anti-trans legal battles

BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont premiere of a new documentary, Heightened Scrutiny, will be held Saturday, Nov. 1,

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Seasonable, fair weather now, but winter arrives by mid-December

By
Dave Hayes
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 — Issue 436

Good day to you, denizens of southeastern Vermont, I hope that you had a peaceful and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday! Aside from some mixed rain, sleet, and snow late Thursday night in elevations above 1,000 to 1,500 feet in the southern Green Mountains, we can expect fair and seasonable weather to dominate the upcoming week. Thanks to a strong Pacific jet stream, we've been in the doldrums in terms of our weather pattern. This jet stream has caused mainly a west...

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Voices

Our quiet superheroes

By
Paul Rodrigue
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 — Issue 726

For those of us who had the good fortune to grow up in quiet neighborhoods, we saw the roads as a resource and gathering place. A place to play games. An opportunity for fun. The open space and firm surface provided the raw elements for team sports like baseball and touch football. Basketball hoops on the edge of the road created the conditions for a basketball court. The curbing and telephone poles offered boundary lines that would contain games we...

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Arts

VTC presents ‘Moon Over Buffalo’

Wednesday, November 21, 2012 — Issue 179

The Vermont Theatre Company announces its next production, Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo, the final weekend in November and the first weekend in December at the Evening Star Grange in Dummerston Center. Moon Over Buffalo tells the story of a jaded family of traveling actors struggling to make it from the stage to the silver screen. Their big chance comes in Buffalo, where they are performing Cyrano de Bergerac, but when they hear Frank Capra is considering them for roles...

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