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The calendar says spring started on March 20. But tell that to the Thurber family...
BELLOWS FALLS-Happy Spring! Shh, the snow has gone. I am saying this quietly, lest I...
BRATTLEBORO-It's here: the season of good cheer. With days and nights filled with holiday-themed office...
BRATTLEBORO-I was full of Christmas cheer as I took a trolley from Cambridge to Boston...
ROCKINGHAM-A pair of Stephen Belaski murals, in storage in northern New York for the past 36 years, have been gifted to the town. Belaski, born in New York in 1909, grew up and lived in Bellows Falls most of his life. He became one of Vermont's most noted muralists, with many of his best known works created in the 1930s, including these two murals, funded by the Federal Art Project, part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA). The...
VERNON-A newly enacted state law - Act 122 - will likely be used to make fossil fuels the ultimate cause of our "climate damage." No substitute on a large-enough scale exists. Renewable solar and wind farms cover massive tracts of land and also need - Oh, my! - fossil-fuel power generation at times! A nuclear backup in Vernon is now being removed. Our power companies will work through rain and flooding, no matter whether we call it "heavy weather" or...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont-based collage artist Vanessa Compton, whose artwork is currently on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), will discuss her work at the museum on Sunday, March 30, at 1 p.m. Compton's exhibition, "A Night at the Garden," is on view in the museum's large, outward-facing window bays and in the Spotlight Gallery through April 27. Raised in rural Vermont and now based in Burlington, Compton combines hand-cut papers and paint to create surreal landscapes. At BMAC, reproductions...
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