BELLOWS FALLS-On this Saturday, the 250th anniversary of two early Massachusetts battles that irrevocably advanced...
BRATTLEBORO-Greg Lesch. the executive director of the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, died Feb. 19,
Many people in Windham County look on in frustration as they watch the police arrest...
ROCKINGHAM-The town of Rockingham recently announced that the Proposed Amendments to the town's Zoning and...
In Youth Services' latest workforce development initiative, a youth-led screen printing business [“Program helps youth build their skills, futures,” [News, Nov. 7], youth workers get paid, but their adult mentors are volunteers. “It is actually essential to the relationship model that the mentors don't get paid, that they come to the process for the sake of the relationship and their communities,” explains Nanci Leitch, development director of Youth Services.
On the morning of April 17, David Mitchell, a 46-year-old man from Rutland, complained to prison guards that he couldn't breathe and needed urgent medical treatment. According to multiple accounts from other people incarcerated in the same block at Southern State Correctional Facility, the guard told Mitchell to stop complaining and go back to his cell. When Mitchell kept begging to be taken to the hospital, he was threatened with being sent “to the hole” - solitary confinement - if...
Outdoors at Sandglass returns for two weekends, with intimate events in the Sandglass Theater backyard with “Footpath to the Puppets: Attempts at Fight” (June 4–6) and “Suspended Disbelief,” an exhibition of new works by associate artist Jana Zeller (June 12–13). “Come see how we mere mortals have tried to soar through our technology, our struggle to grow wings, our philosophical gymnastics, and our spiritual ladders to reach the Angels! And yet, our flights of the imagination have kept us alive...
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