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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

Bringing the music to where the people are

By
Annie Landenberger

GRAFTON-Among the summer arts happenings gracing green hills with theater, fine art, craft, circus, puppetry,

Rood artwork on exhibit at Dummerston Historical Society

DUMMERSTON-All are invited to the opening reception of "Watercolors by Linda Rood" at the Dummerston...

Kopkind colony caps Pride Month with film fest, celebration of James Baldwin

GUILFORD-Pride began with rebellion. Kopkind Colony, the living memorial to the late radical journalist Andrew...

Bard Owl to perform at Marlboro's Thrush Hill outdoor stage in a benefit for Loaves & Fishes

MARLBORO-Bard Owl, the duo of T. Breeze Verdant and Annie Landenberger, will perform a benefit...

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News

Brattleboro property tax rate to rise almost 8%

By
Virginia Ray
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 — Issue 773

BRATTLEBORO-Property taxes will go up about 8% after the Selectboard voted unanimously July 9 to adopt the fiscal year 2025 property tax rate. Their vote was essentially a rubber stamp to pay for what was decided at this year's Representative Town Meeting, the Grand List, and state-mandated education rates, as Finance Director Kim Frost explained. "The good thing is state statute requires that the Selectboard set the rate, but every decision has been made, so that's a good thing," said...

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Voices

Editing error implied ignorance of original biblical text

By
Steve Smith
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 — Issue 450

My letter included a reference to the Old Testament figures Abram and Sarai, who were the perpetrators of the famous blackmail scheme involving the Pharaoh of Egypt. At the time they pulled off their grift, they were, in fact, named Abram and Sarai. Yaweh later changed their names to Abraham and Sarah, apparently as a reward for their complicity. Your editor, however, changed their names himself, which had the effect of making my comments appear ignorant of the original Genesis...

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Arts

Three artists with three different styles host an interactive exhibit at Crowell Gallery

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 — Issue 331

Matt Peake, Barbara Baker-Bury, and Scott Morgan will exhibit their works at Crowell Art Gallery throughout November. An opening reception is set for Saturday, Nov. 14, at 1 p.m. Crowell Gallery is at Moore Free Library, 23 West St. Peake launched his professional career in 1982 as a family physician in rural Vermont. After nearly 25 years he left his practice to pursue a full-time career in art - in dance and the visual arts. Initially, he says, his paintings...

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