WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-This weekend's opening of 2025's Ten Minute Play Festival (TMPF) at Actors Theatre...
BELLOWS FALLS-With a career spanning more than 50 years, Jorma Kaukonen has done it all.
BRATTLEBORO-June is recognized by the Alzheimer's Association as "Alzheimer's and Brain Health Awareness Month" (ABAM)
BRATTLEBORO-Former Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord and former Brooklyn, New York, Poet Laureate D. Nurkse...
Taxpayers sent about $11 million in education taxes to the state this past year. The town keeps $2 million for the Dover Elementary School. That has totalled about $150 million over 10 years that residents have paid to educate students in less prosperous communities across the state. In an attempt to determine the economic impacts of Vermont's educational funding structure on their residents and economies, town representatives - in alliance with their Wilmington counterparts - want to fund an evaluation...
I believe my skill in quantitative (e.g. square feet) and qualitative (e.g. condition relative to age) analysis will make a valuable contribution to the Board of Listers' process. I have been a member of Representative Town Meeting for over a decade. As the executive director of Building a Better Brattleboro, the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance's predecessor, I helped complete Pliny Park, supported downtown merchants in many successful promotions and events, and managed a process to change the town charter. If you...
Students at the elementary school welcomed a special guest during the first week of May. Judy Dow, an Abenaki teacher, storyteller, and basket maker, was the school's visiting artist-in-residence. She worked with all the students from Kindergarten through sixth-grade on topics teachers identified as fitting with their curriculum, said fourth-grade teacher Maresa Nielson. Nielson serves on Vernon Elementary School's Diversity Committee and described the group's work as “about equity for all of our children and staff.” Much of the history...
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