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The seamstress’s apprentices
One of Prima Crisafalo’s costumes from NEYT’s 2015 presentation of “The Tempest.”
Arts

The seamstress’s apprentices

Grant allows NEYT to train a new generation of costume designers, with a little help from an up-and-coming Brattleboro-based corsetière
By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

BRATTLEBORO — This story will be reposted soon with corrections.

Arts

New art gallery opens in Newfane

By
Annie Landenberger

NEWFANE-The former office of John Morrison, a longtime broker with Barrett & Valley Associates Real...

VTC opens season with four one-act plays

DUMMERSTON-Vermont Theatre Company opens its 40th season with "An Evening of One Act Plays" at...

‘Sing Nowell’ will benefit Groundworks

BRATTLEBORO-On Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m., the Latchis Theatre will ring again with the...

Brattleboro Women's Chorus presents fall concert

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Women's Chorus (BWC) presents its fall concert, "We Toast the Days," on Nov.

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News

Martha O’Connor, longtime teacher and public servant, dies at 82

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 — Issue 526

Martha H. O'Connor, former chair of a host of local and state governing boards, died Sept. 2 at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, N.H., at age 82. The former Martha Elizabeth Hannum was born April 26, 1937, in Brattleboro, daughter of David and Rhona (Patterson) Hannum of Putney. She graduated from Brattleboro Union High School in 1955 and the University of Vermont in Burlington in 1959 before marrying Timothy J. O'Connor Jr. of Brattleboro July 8, 1961. The two celebrated...

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Voices

The plight of Sri Lanka’s elephants

By
Hollis Burbank-Hammerlund
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 — Issue 425

Thank you, Katheen Hawes, for a brilliantly written piece, which tells the complicated story of the tragic plight of Sri Lanka's captive and wild elephants - an issue that has grabbed my heart and won't let go. Correction: The correct spelling of the name of my project partner is Dr. Susan Mikota of Elephant Care International. Our other key veterinarian partner was Dr. Ashoka Dangolla of the University of Peradeniya. Tharaka Deepal assisted our team with field logistics. Many thanks...

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Arts

Ice cream social, Bard Owl concert to benefit Athens Meetinghouse

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 — Issue 623

The Athens Brick Meetinghouse Committee, in conjunction with the Athens Historic Preservation Society, is hosting an ice cream social and a concert featuring Bard Owl on Sunday, Aug. 8 at the 1817 Brick Meetinghouse on Route 35. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. with an ice cream sundae “buffet bar” set up on the lawn. Concertgoers are invited to bring a picnic dinner to enjoy on the Meetinghouse Common prior to the concert. Bard Owl is a Williamsville-based music duo:

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