WEST BRATTLEBORO-California-based, activist singer-songwriting duo Emma's Revolution will perform a benefit concert Saturday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 29 South St.
The concert is a benefit for SoVT 4 Palestine and All Souls Church.
"In this intense and unprecedented time, when lives are on the line in Gaza, and our rights, norms and democracy are on the line here in the U.S.," the duo said in a news release, "all of our voices are needed to create the country and the world we want to live in."
SoVT 4 Palestine describes itself as "an organically formed group of people who currently reside in Southern Vermont and Western Massachusetts who cannot sit idly by while crimes are being carried out in Gaza by the state of Israel with the backing of the U.S. government. We are a proud member of the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation."...
Honoring Vermont LGBTQ+ elders and ancestors at RFPLBELLOWS FALLS - "Looking Back/Moving Forward: Vermont Stories of LGBTQ+ Caregiving & Community" will take place Friday, Oct. 24, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Rockingham Free Public Library on Westminster Street. This event is part of "Resilient Patterns," a statewide...
BRATTLEBORO-The BrattleMasters Toastmasters Club invites the public to its special virtual-only Open House event Thursday, Oct. 23, at 6 p.m. to celebrate its 18th anniversary. BrattleMasters was chartered in October 2007. BrattleMasters usually conducts its meetings in a hybrid format in which members meet both in-person and virtually via...
BRATTLEBORO-Tiny Theater will perform a staged reading of Act I of Jon Robin Baitz's celebrated play, Other Desert Cities Monday, Oct. 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. at ByWay Books, 399 Canal St., hosted by proprietor Severia Drake. Tiny Theater describes itself as "a grassroots performance ensemble of trained actors dedicated to re-imagining theater as an accessible, intimate, and transformative experience." They say their ensemble is committed to community storytelling, small performances, transformative readings, and workshops throughout Brattleboro and southern...
Obituaries • Janice Pope Deyo, 96, of Brattleboro. Died peacefully at Vernon Green Nursing Home, following a period of declining health, on Oct. 8, 2025. Janice was born in Brattleboro on March 3, 1929, the daughter of Edward and Florence (Spaulding) Pope. She attended school in Jefferson and later graduated from Brattleboro High School with the Class of 1947. She was employed for many years as a physician's office assistant for the late Dr. Ivan Carrasquillo's family practice, Windham OB/GYN...
The Green Mountain Mummers mark their 50th anniversary season on the last weekend of October. On Saturday, Oct. 25, and Sunday, Oct. 26, the group will present its symbolic death-and-resurrection street theater, rain or shine, in seven locations in Windham County. They are dedicating their performances to the memory of Stuart Strothman, a member of many years, who died last April. The group of 10 (mostly) Windham County residents is the oldest continuing sword dance and mumming troupe in the...
TOWNSHEND-Valley Village recently announced the promotion of Mary Jo Dansereau, a licensed practical nurse, to the position of assisted living director. Dansereau, a healthcare professional with more than 20 years of experience in elder care and assisted living, has been a member of the Valley Village team since 2020. According to a news release, the promotion "is part of Valley Village's ongoing implementation of its strategic plan, which aims to strengthen leadership, support staff, and enhance the quality of life...
Townshend School Club hosts third annual Trunk or TreatTOWNSHEND - The Townshend School Club will sponsor "a spooktacular evening of family fun" Friday, Oct. 24, from 6 to 7 p.m. on Townshend Common. Visitors are encouraged to come in costume and enjoy a night of treats, creativity, and community. The public can sign up to decorate their car's trunk; participation is free. Space is limited to 30 vehicles around the Common, so early reservation is encouraged. There will be a...
BELLOWS FALLS-Dr. Taronté Venable will perform his original, intimate cabaret at the Flat Iron Cooperative Café in downtown Bellows Falls Saturday, Nov. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m. Venable is a chiropractic neurologist - and the new owner of Temple Chiropractic - who also happens to be a performer. He shares his stories and experiences as a Black American, combined with songs from various genres - including an original song. This show debuted at Madame Sherri's in Keene, New Hampshire,
BRATTLEBORO-The town of Brattleboro has installed its first publicly accessible, outdoor, automated external defibrillator (AED) outside the front entrance of the Nelson Withington Skating Facility at Living Memorial Park. An AED is a portable electronic device that can analyze a person's heart rhythm and, if necessary, deliver an electric shock (called defibrillation) during sudden cardiac arrest to help the heart re-establish an effective rhythm. The device was donated by Brattleboro Senior Corporation. "This project shows what Brattleboro does best -
DUMMERSTON-It was a time after World War II, when the men who came back from the battlefronts around the globe wanted to build things up instead of destroy them. So, in 1949, four men from Dummerston got together and decided the town needed a fire department. A year later, the West Dummerston Volunteer Fire Department was born. Thanks to them, the Dummerston Fire Department - known until July as the West Dummerston Volunteer Fire Department - is celebrating its 75th...
BRATTLEBORO-On Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Brooks Memorial Library, all are welcome to join James Crews and his husband, Brad Peacock, co-editors of Love Is for All of Us: Poems of Tenderness & Belonging from the LGBTQ+ Community & Friends, as they share poems about love of all kinds - romantic love, self-love, family and friend love, as well as reverence for the natural world. Crews and Peacock will talk with local poet and Out in...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is hiring two outside advisers to help address an operating budget shortfall and related questions from state regulators. The not-for-profit will work with Ovation Healthcare, a national support organization, and David Sanville, a former chief financial officer at Windsor's Mt. Ascutney Hospital, according to a social media announcement. "Let me say this very clearly: Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is not closing," acting co-CEO Elizabeth McLarney, an orthopedic surgeon, said in a Facebook video posted on Oct. 17. "We...
EAST DUMMERSTON-Peter Westgate Thurrell has penned Badji's Tales: Living with Faith in the Invisible (Green Writers Press), a series of 72 short vignettes. In turn poignant, teeth-clenching, daring, loving, elucidating, and inspiring, the memoir is like a travelogue of a long journey to self-awareness and spiritual awakening. Of the title, Thurrell explains, "Badji" is what his 2-year-old grandson had dubbed him, with "ji" a commonly used suffix in India which indicates respect. Thurrell, now of East Dummerston, moved to Vermont...
-The Brattleboro boys' cross country team completed the regular season by capturing the Southern Vermont League (SVL) A Division title on Oct. 17 at Bellows Falls Union High School. The Bears narrowly edged Burr & Burton, 34-37, with Thetford Academy finishing third with 70 points. Mount Anthony was fourth with 85 and Woodstock was fifth with 153. Brattleboro's Nico Conathan-Leach won the 5K race in 16 minutes, 7 seconds. Burr & Burton's Isaiah Lewit was second in 16:29 and Brattleboro's...
BRATTLEBORO-"Honk for Decency," said the sign, and, oh, honk they did. It was a beautiful fall afternoon on Brattleboro's Town Common, where a joyous No Kings 2.0 protest on Oct. 18 pushed against the presidency of Donald Trump. More than 3,000 people came out and filled the Town Common in Brattleboro. They were among nearly 2,700 other marches, vigils, and protests that spanned the U.S. from coast to coast, and drew an estimated 7 million people. Similar events were held...
Laura Sibilia delivered these remarks at the No Kings 2.0 event in Wilmington on Oct. 18. Sibilia, an independent, represents the Windham-2 district (Dover, Jamaica, Somerset, Stratton, and Wardsboro) in the Vermont House of Representatives. WILMINGTON-I served on our local school boards for over 20 years, and the best advice I received during that service was from our chair: "The people are always right." Especially when we were divided - that reminder helped us find consensus. We could always agree...
BRATTLEBORO-The Windham County Branch of the NAACP was surprised to learn of Dr. Etan Nasreddin-Longo's sudden release from his prominent role as director of the Vermont Fair and Impartial Policing Commission on Sept. 26, particularly given the recent commendations for his "excellent" performance. While the organization could issue a lengthy statement detailing its concerns regarding the perceived unfairness of these actions toward such a prominent figure for justice, it recognizes that doing so would largely echo sentiments already expressed in...
ROCKINGHAM-Over the past couple of weeks, several important projects in Rockingham have taken significant steps forward. At the same time, the federal government shutdown, combined with ongoing massive cuts in federal funding and staffing, have added elements of uncertainty to the process for some of the work. The federal chaos has led to many questions on what approved federal grants will be fully funded and when or if the money will be received. But locally, on Oct. 14, two bond...
TOWNSHEND-The Vermont School Redistricting Task Force broke the folks assembled at Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School into small groups to take testimony regarding their thoughts on redistricting on Oct. 16, forcing about 80 people online to have their own chat. And not everyone was pleased with the setup, although state officials offered reassurance that comments can still be accepted at ADM.Redistricting@vermont.gov. Following a presentation of about 15 minutes, those present were split into individual feedback stations in...
Django Grace spoke a version of these words at the No Kings 2.0 rally in Brattleboro on Oct. 18. "I tend to paraphrase a bit when I get as fired up as I did, but the following is generally what I said and 100% what I believe," he says in sharing the written version of his remarks. "Today was an unbelievable opportunity, and I want to express my gratitude to all those who came out in support," says Grace, a...
BRATTLEBORO-For Baroque music, the Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery - the main gallery of the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (BMAC) - fits the bill for Jesse Lepkoff. "The acoustics are perfect for the delicate and subtle sound of these 18th-century instruments," the director of Ensemble Amphion Baroque says. "They allow the nuance and the resonance of the music to just soar." Lepkoff, of Marlboro, will bring his ensemble to that venue for the second year in a row...
BRATTLEBORO-Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) will screen the documentary Borderland: The Line Within at Brattleboro's Latchis Theatre on Sunday, Oct 26. The film will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís. As explained in a WWAC press release, the 110-minute film is described by The New York Times as taking "a surprisingly multidisciplinary approach [to the border crisis] fueled by both personal history and government data." In their promotional materials, the filmmakers posit that...
