PUTNEY — One of the founders of the Tempestry Project at The Putney School is Asy Connelly. Her name appeared incorrectly in the April 19 issue.
BRATTLEBORO-The Henrik Ibsen drama An Enemy of the People will lead audiences to question "the...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will head to Windham County to present two cutting-edge music presentations...
BRATTLEBORO-Throughout the month of April, River Gallery School will exhibit "Places We Know: Local Landscapes...
BRATTLEBORO-ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., is supporting the Vermont Reads community program by...
The Vermont Attorney General's Office has ruled that a local police officer and two state troopers were justified when they shot and killed a man on July 19 after he was suspected of murdering his ex-girlfriend. Brattleboro Officer Ryder Carbone and Vermont State Police detective sergeants Jesse Robson and Samuel Truex aimed their guns at Matthew Davis, 34, of Fitchburg, Mass., after he ran toward them with a knife, the Attorney General's Office said on Sept. 26. The sequence of...
The affordable housing article presents developers, past Selectboard members, and other town employees as progressive and compassionately concerned about the homeless and low-income residents, and those of us questioning the project as troublemakers who look down on the poor and needy. But it's a farce to call an $11.7 million project affordable and progressive! That construction fee breaks down to $468,000 per apartment, which is outrageous. Not only that, but residents at the three already-existing Windham & Windsor Housing Trust...
MARLBORO-In 2009, Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that Marlboro Music is "the classical world's most coveted retreat," nestled in the rural, pastoral nook known as Potash Hill. In a 1975 New York Times feature, Rudolf Serkin, a renowned pianist and the cofounder and director of Marlboro Music until 1991, called the festival "a community of artists." "I don't want to sound chauvinistic - only in America could Marlboro have happened," he said. "Nowhere else will you find this...
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