Congratulations, Starr LaTronica! Brooks Memorial Library is very lucky.
BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
GREENFIELD, MASS.-When I saw the cover of The Commons, I decided to look over this...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
How did the Robb Family Farm's maple syrup end up on actress Brooke Shields' holiday gift list in People magazine? “Dumb luck, I guess,” says Helen Robb, who runs the farm with her husband, Charlie, and her son, Charlie Jr. In any event, having a celebrity plug their maple syrup in a national magazine with an estimated readership of 46 million people has meant the Robbs are selling a lot of syrup. Helen said Shields never set foot on her...
After Tropical Storm Irene did major damage to Vermont in 2011, the state recognized the need to prepare for future storms of that magnitude. People started to take the idea of climate-related weather events more seriously. In building back our infrastructure, the Agency of Transportation put in larger culverts and stronger bridges, and it paid attention to riverbank restoration, among other measures. Lessons were learned. Now, a mere 12 years after Irene, these improvements have been tested with catastrophic flooding.
PUTNEY-The NXT Gallery presents "Landscapes," an exhibition of paintings by artist Hannah Harvester. The exhibit runs Saturday, Aug. 17, through Nov. 10. Harvester is known both for her rural landscapes and portraits of children and families. She is also a teacher of drawing, pastel painting, and printmaking for adults and children. "I paint in oils and soft pastels, en plein air in rural western Massachusetts or in my studio by the South River," she writes in her artist statement. "I...
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