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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

NAACP revives contest for youth art and writing

By
Gen Louise Mangiaratti

BRATTLEBORO-When Daniel Guerra taught at the middle and high schools in Brattleboro, some of the...

Local folk artists to perform in Westminster West

WESTMINSTER WEST-On Saturday, Feb. 1, two regional singer-songwriters will be playing at the Congregational Church...

Signing in for duty

BRATTLEBORO-When asked what inspired Junior Museum Guides, a new program for children at the Brattleboro...

Sandglass Theater presents Winter Sunshine Series

PUTNEY-Sandglass Theater presents its 18th annual Winter Sunshine Series this February. Four premier New England–based...

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News

For ski towns, a plan to boost summer economy

By
Olga Peters
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 — Issue 596

A consultant from a Virginia-based marketing and advertising firm has presented a new branding strategy for the Deerfield Valley region - “the Foothold of the Green Mountains” - as part of a five-year strategic marketing plan. “A foothold suggests that it's a secure position from which progress can be made,” Julie Garel, chief curiosity officer with Charrette Agency, told members of the Dover and Wilmington selectboards as the firm recommended the tagline at least as a “placeholder.” “It is, in...

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Voices

‘It’s a complicated situation, isn’t it?’

By
Selma Schiffer
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 — Issue 460

Nicole Awwad, in her Viewpoint, calls for peace and justice, and who can fault such lofty aspirations? Thankfully, we here can exercise those beliefs at the ballot box - unlike her father, who could not when he left Lebanon those so many years ago. Did Ms. Awwad learn that the ballot box is a phantom when she returned to Lebanon three years ago? She says she now knows that country's history and still asks, “I began to wonder: Where would...

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Arts

Literary Cocktail Hour features crime novelist

Tuesday, June 18, 2024 — Issue 770

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites all to listen on Friday, June 21, at 5:30 p.m., for a Literary Cocktail Hour, online and free, featuring New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, author of Everyone Knows But You: A Tale of Murder on the Maine Coast. "In this riveting crime debut," write organizers in a news release, "Ricks turns his literary talents to land he knows deeply from working in the Maine woods and trapping lobsters year-round." An FBI agent...

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