BRATTLEBORO-In the predawn hours of Nov. 7, a fire tore through the abandoned remains of...
PUTNEY-A fourth appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court has proved unsuccessful in stopping the proposed...
BRATTLEBORO-A group of residents has successfully petitioned for a special Town Meeting to debate whether...
BRATTLEBORO-Once you have lived through a civil war, or been beaten and tortured and starved,
Last year, Jacob Alan Roberts hit the ground running as the new part-time downtown coordinator with the organization then known as Building a Better Brattleboro. He spent his first two days on the job moving the organization from its longtime home in the iconic River Garden to a second-floor office further down Main Street. BaBB had just sold the building, whose expenses had far outpaced its revenues, to fellow nonprofit Strolling of the Heifers. A year later, Roberts sits in...
To all Marlboro residents: By now you will see work being done on all our roads to repair the storm damage and prepare for winter. Initially, all efforts were directed to opening all roads in town (especially Ames Hill, Higley Hill, North Pond, Butterfield, Lower Dover, Stratton Hill, and Adams Brook) and to rescue residents who were totally cut off by the enormous flooding on the Branch Brook. The town is contracting with various heavy equipment operators to supplement the...
BELLOWS FALLS-On Thursday, Sept. 5, at 6:30 p.m. at the Rockingham Free Public Library, acclaimed authors Eileen Charbonneau and Eileen O'Finlan will take a dark look at what happened when two European folk beliefs arrived in what would become the United States in their new novels Spectral Evidence and The Folklorist, respectively. O'Finlan's The Folklorist is a dual-timeline story set in 1970s and 1830s Vermont. It explores the New England Vampire Panic of the 19th century and its family echoes.
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