BRATTLEBORO — Shut off air conditioning in all government offices in the 10 most offending countries*.
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BRATTLEBORO-In Brattleboro, a significant amount of public discourse happens online. While social media can be...
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BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group went off to Asheville, North Carolina! The multicultural group...
NORTHFIELD, MASS.-There are so many hysterical writers to this paper that it's difficult to focus...
BRATTLEBORO-"I always thought that the Sportsman's Lounge on Canal Street in Brattleboro was our own version of the television show Cheers," says Gordon Bristol, a regular customer for many years. The vacant structure burned in a spectacular explosion of flame early in the morning of Nov. 7, days before it was scheduled to be demolished. The last chapter for the 104-year-old building at 45 Canal St. began in 1963, when Dessaint's Food Center, a small, neighborhood grocery store, took on...
I'm Ray McNeill's daughter. I'd like to share some details and dispel some rumors about his death. Ray was told in June that due to the structural instability of the building, the fire department would not be able to send a crew in there safely if a fire were to break out. There hadn't been a fire in his 30-some years there, and he had an extensive sprinkler system, so he chose to stay. Anyone who loved him knew that...
The madrigal, a genre of 16th- and 17th-century music, will be showcased on Sunday, March 10, at the Brattleboro Music Center when In Stile Moderno performs "Madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi (for Five Voices and Theorbo)." An ensemble for early music which began in 2012 in Basel, Switzerland, In Stile Moderno was founded by soprano Agnes Coakley Cox and Brattleboro's own lutenist/cornettist, Nathaniel Cox. According to its website, the group was named after the "modern style" of music which emerged in...
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