GRAFTON-Among the summer arts happenings gracing green hills with theater, fine art, craft, circus, puppetry,
DUMMERSTON-All are invited to the opening reception of "Watercolors by Linda Rood" at the Dummerston...
GUILFORD-Pride began with rebellion. Kopkind Colony, the living memorial to the late radical journalist Andrew...
MARLBORO-Bard Owl, the duo of T. Breeze Verdant and Annie Landenberger, will perform a benefit...
DUMMERSTON-Eleanor Emery will turn 97 years old in October - a fact that she conveys with some pride. "Who knew?" Emery asks, throwing her head back and laughing. Born at the family home in West Guilford in 1927, Emery remains as sharp as a tack. This time of year often stirs two memories. The first is of the one-room District No. 1 schoolhouse, where Emery was a student from 1933 to 1941. "My school years were during the Great Depression.
In the past few weeks, editorials, letters, and articles have been written about the Greater Falls Warming Shelter. Most have been supportive of the shelter and hopeful of the outcome of the zoning board decision. As most of you know, that decision was passed down and was a tie. Because of this vote, the GFWS will not be opening at this time. After this decision, more letters, editorials, and articles appeared in our local papers, most critical of the board's...
Brattleboro native Nathaniel Cox and his early-music ensemble, In Stile Moderno, from Basel, Switzerland, will be performing in his hometown for the very first time. In a concert entitled “Un Concerto per Barberini,” In Stile Moderno will be playing works by Italian Baroque composers Girolamo Frescobaldi and Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger at the newly renovated sanctuary of St. Michael's Episcopal Church on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 4 p.m. Son of noted West Brattleboro violin maker Douglas Cox, Nathaniel came of age...
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