Laughter is on the agenda as Gordon Clark and his Vermont Comedy All Stars return to Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, for a night of side-splitting stand-up comedy on Saturday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m.
Event organizers promise "an evening filled with uproarious performances from a stellar lineup of seasoned comedians."
Featured performers include:
• David Deery: A globe-trotting comedian/writer with two decades of experience, Deery has performed from Berlin to Cabot, Vermont. He brings his unique perspective to the stage, having performed in major cities across Europe and America.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) hosts artist and instructor Jenny Santa Maria on Saturday, March 23, for two workshops in Pysanky, the traditional Ukrainian folk art of egg decoration. The workshops will take place at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The techniques used in Pysanky are similar...
Wardsboro Yoked Parish moves worship services to West WardsboroWARDSBORO - Worship services of the Wardsboro Yoked Parish have moved to the historic Baptist Church on Cross Road in West Wardsboro as of March 3. Service each Sunday starts at 9 a.m., and will continue through May 26. Communion is...
Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge St., hosts The Fretbenders and The Fairlanes on Sunday, March 10, for a 3 p.m. matinee concert. The Fretbenders are Bob and Diane Kordas, described by organizers as having "a fun, toe-tapping sound based in blues, roots, Americana, and a dash of folk, country, and rock - where a down-home barbecue meets a speakeasy." Diane and Bob have played in various New England swing, bluegrass, and roots bands through the years, honing their stage presence...
The Grafton Village Cheese Company (GVCC), a subsidiary of The Windham Foundation, recently announced the move of its retail store and cut-and-wrap operation to a new store east of downtown Ludlow in the village of Proctorsville. A fixture at 400 Linden St. in Brattleboro for more than a decade, GVCC lost its lease when the building was sold to Retreat Farm in late 2022. The acquisition of the GVCC facility by Retreat Farm was fully funded through a $3 million...
Obituaries • Carol P. Bryant, 92, of Putney. Died on Feb. 25, 2024. She was born June 19, 1931, to Arthur and Lillian (Russell) Poynton in New Rochelle, New York. She graduated from Mamaroneck High School and attended the University of Vermont, where she was a proud sorority member and met her future husband, Lawrence E. Bryant. They were married in Shelburne on Sept. 6, 1952, and made their home in Putney until his death in 2003, a year after...
Harmony Collective says they are bringing downtown Brattleboro a beam of springtime hope with "Spring Forward," a group art show featuring several artists' expressions of what the change of season means to them. Exploring themes of growth, resilience, and the joy of sunny days ahead, Harmony Collective celebrates an artful welcome to a season of renewal. The Spring Forward show opens Friday, March 8, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., with refreshments and opportunities to meet the artists who exhibit at...
Main Street Arts (MSA) will offer two summer camp programs - Trish Roberts's Wildbrook Forest Theater Camp and The Un-Lost Island of Atlantis with Putnam Smith. No theater experience is necessary, and no audition will be required. Space is limited, with slots available by sign-up on a first-come, first-served basis. The return to offering summer camp is part of MSA's focus on strengthening the well-being of area children. The camps will explore how to connect deeply to the natural world...
Since late 2012, the Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon hydroelectric facilities in the heart of the Connecticut River have been in the process of renewing their operating licenses in a process known as relicensing. The three dams at Wilder, Bellows Falls, and Vernon in New Hampshire and Vermont are owned by Great River Hydro (formerly TransCanada), a subsidiary of Hydro-Québec whose sole shareholder is the government of Québec. In addition, two Massachusetts facilities - Turners Falls Dam and Northfield Mountain...
The Ethiopian Community Development Center (ECDC), the organization that oversees refugee settlement in southern Vermont, is having a fundraiser on Saturday, March 9, featuring local refugee (and other) talent, at the International Center on the School for International Training campus, 1 Kipling Rd. When Afghan refugees arrived in Brattleboro two years ago, the U.S. government provided funding for legal fees. "However, newly arrived refugees from other countries, such as Eritrea, the Congo, and Yemen, do not have that financial support,"
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won her first state in the Republican presidential primary on Tuesday - and it happened in Vermont. Haley defeated former President Donald Trump by the slimmest of margins in the state, according to the Associated Press, which called the race for her at 10:37 p.m. With 224 of 247 precincts reporting late Tuesday night, she was leading Trump 49.3% to 45.3%, according to the Vermont Secretary of State's Office. Though she prevailed in the...
Following are Annual Town Meeting and local election results received by press time on Tuesday night: Brattleboro: Peter "Fish" Case defeated challenger Oscar Heller for a three-year term on the Selectboard, 1,115–1095. "It is not lost on me that my victory was by a margin of 20 votes," Case wrote on Facebook on Tuesday night in thanking his supporters. "It is not lost on me that several factors may have played into that result," he continued. "It is not lost...
Elayne Clift (elayne-clift.com) has written this column about women, politics, and social issues from the earliest days of this newspaper. Remember the outcry when we realized that prior Republican administrations, national and state, cared about children but only from conception to birth? It's looking like déjà vu all over again with millions of children in this wealthy country going hungry. As The New York Times noted in a January article, more than eight million kids in 13 states are about...
After four years of electronic Town Meetings, the town was very happy to be back at the school Tuesday for an in-person meeting. About 100 residents filled the cafeteria at 10 a.m. to hear Town Moderator Cindy Jerome call the meeting to order and remind them to respect one another while debating heated town issues. "Caring for this community is far more important than anything else," she said. Jerome opened the meeting by solemnly reading the names of the 59...
The Brattleboro bowling team was unable to repeat as state bowling champions, as the third-seeded Bears were defeated by No. 2 South Burlington, 4-2, in the quarterfinal round of the state championship tournament on March 2 at Spare Time Lanes in Colchester. While bowlers Thomas Bell, Charlie Forthofer, Austin Pinette, and Alyssa St. Louis all competed in the individual state tournament on Feb. 24 and got a taste of the high pressure that comes with going against the top bowlers...
Rich Holschuh is co-director of the Atowi Project, an Elnu Abenaki community initiative "to affirm Native relationships to the Land and its inhabitants, raise Indigenous voices, and foster inclusion with understanding, in place," according to the organization's website. I offer these remarks on behalf of the Vermont state-recognized Abenaki communities for whom I advocate, and that are involved in a protracted, unilateral, and dismaying political challenge. Whereas I speak as an individual, I recognize that I am only enabled to...
Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro and serves as the steering committee chair of the Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance, as well as on the boards of the Vermont Community Loan Fund and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. Four years ago, the state of Vermont mustered the political will to offer shelter to all as the pandemic unfolded. The motel program was born and has continued to this day. It has...
Lisa Chase is a Putney resident. In response to Mark Borax: Yes, Josh Laughlin was a co-owner of the Alice Holway property held by a consortium known as Gateway and sold to Windham-Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT). And yes, Josh Laughlin was on the Putney Selectboard, and yes, Josh Laughlin properly recused himself from any town business having to do with the Gateway/WWHT matter. This simple, compelling, and entirely sufficient fact is not difficult to determine. Do your research, sir, and...
State Superior Court Judge Thomas S. Durkin has denied a third appeal to stop the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) from proceeding with its Alice Holway Drive community housing project. The development has been planned since 2019 as two new buildings intended to provide 25 mixed-income, energy-efficient, and accessible apartments on the 0.91-acre site in Putney Village next to Putney Community Gardens. In their appeal, neighbors to the site Laura Campbell and Deborah Lazar contended the Trust's lots are...
Turning a bill into law is a complicated process. A bill becomes a law if a majority of the members of both chambers - the House and the Senate - vote to approve it and the governor signs it. If the governor vetoes it, the bill can still succeed if the Legislature then goes ahead and overrides his veto with a two-thirds majority in both legislative bodies. Most bills never make it into law. As of this week, 869 bills...
In one member's home on a cold February night, six members of the Wardsboro Photo Group, all accomplished photographers and historians, pass around a set of photographs, organized by number in large plastic boxes designed to keep the art safe and dry. They have met at this table every Wednesday night for more than 30 years. For years, Chuck Fish, active in photography for the Dummerston Historical Society, has followed the efforts of the photo group, which is associated with...
Since the first days of the year, Windham County's legislators have been hard at work in Montpelier. And now, as the midpoint of the Session looms, Vermonters are starting to see the diverse and interesting results. Among them? An more than $873 million transportation bill. A bill taxing the wealthy. A tweak to the Renewable Energy Standard. Multiple and massive suggested changes to Act 250, the state's land-use law. A bill protecting African Americans from being discriminated against because of...
Lindsay Richard describes herself on her website as "many things, but to the formal art world [she is] a photographic artist." In a sea of overwhelming threats to human life, I find myself equally as bewildered as the next person by the dilemma of "What can I do? I'm only one person." But what if we as individuals do hold far more power to change the world than we've been led to believe? We do. What makes us incredibly powerful...
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...