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WILMINGTON-On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, between 2 and 3 p.m., St. Mary's in the Mountains Episcopal Church, 13 East Main St., will offer free turkey dinners.
The meals are "Grab and Go" for those who are in need or alone. People from throughout the Deerfield Valley are invited by community volunteers to this yearly event.
Turkeys have been provided by Christa and John Gannon, with side dishes by members of St. Mary's, Rotary, the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center. Deerfield Valley Campus, and members of the community.
Those who wish to help out by providing a side dish of stuffing, mashed potatoes, string beans, or carrots should call Ward at 802-464-8480.
Obituaries • Veronica Gabrielle Alewyn Brelsford, 90, of Putney. Died peacefully, surrounded by her loving children, on Oct. 31, 2025. Veronica was born In Bad Ischl, Austria, on Oct. 21, 1935, to Richard Wolfram Alewyn and Nelly Margaret Ferch. Richard was a scholar and lecturer of German literature at...
GUILFORD-Guilford Community Church (GCC), 30 Church Drive, off Bee Barn Road, will host Ric Cengeri of HomeShare Vermont on Saturday, Nov. 22, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the church hall (lower level). Coffee and refreshments will be provided. According to its website, homesharevermont.org, "HomeShare Vermont has been matching...
-Thirteen is a lucky number for the Bellows Falls Terriers football team. With their 54-20 victory over the Woodstock Wasps in the Division III state championship game on Nov. 15 at South Burlington High School, the Terriers won their 13th state title since Vermont began having high school football playoffs in 1970 - a Division I title in 1971, Division II titles in 1981, 1984, 1985, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2016, and 2021; and Division III titles in 1993, 1994, 2010,
Brattleboro winter parking ban now in effect BRATTLEBORO - The Town of Brattleboro's annual winter parking ban went into effect on Nov. 15 and will remain in effect through April 15, 2026. The ban is in place regardless of weather conditions. Per Ordinance Sec. 16-93: Parking is prohibited on all public streets in Brattleboro between 12:01 a.m. and 7 a.m. Vehicles found in violation may be ticketed and towed at the owner's expense. The Transportation Center and other designated municipal...
LONDONDERRY-First Baptist Church of South Londonderry recently announced the purchase of the property at 53 Middletown Road, which also includes a small cinder block building on Crescent Street. The house has fallen into disrepair and can no longer be saved. In a news release, the church said it plans "to remove the existing structures, clean and restore the land, and create a safe and welcoming space for both the congregation and the wider community." This purchase marks another step in...
BRATTLEBORO-On Friday, Nov. 21, at 6 p.m at 118 Elliot Gallery, Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) and 118 Elliot will present Teresita's Dream: Cuba's Battle Against Alzheimer's, a new short film (23 minutes) by Cuban director and journalist Daniel Montero. The film gives viewers a window into the challenges and motivations of scientist Teresita Rodriguez as she and her team work toward developing a promising new Alzheimer's drug. Elisabeth Stevens, director, Americans for Common Sense on Cuba, a volunteer association...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts presents AfterTalk: A Play by Chard deNiord, a new work of poetic theater that merges ancient mythology with contemporary artistry. Performances will take place Saturday, Nov. 22, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 23, at 2 p.m. at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill. AfterTalk is a collaborative theatrical experience that unites several Vermont artists, including actors Adrienne Major and David Zucker, with contributions from cellist Eugene Friesen, visual artist Eric Aho, choreographer Alison Mott, lighting and...
BRATTLEBORO-Eloise & Co., the duo of fiddler Becky Tracy and accordionist Rachel Bell, will be joined by Rachel Aucoin Friday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. They will offer a concert at the Brattleboro Music Center to celebrate the release of their new CD. Since 2015, Tracy and Bell have been playing traditional French, Celtic, and Quebecois tunes as the duo Eloise & Co. to explore their love of multiple genres. The band's name is inspired by Tracy and Bell's matching...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brooks Memorial Library and Oscar Heller announce the launch of the Brattleboro Miniature Masterpiece Flash Fiction Competition, a community-wide celebration of literature, human creativity, and storytelling. "Miniature fiction is approachable and fun," organizers said in a news release, one that stands as "a creative challenge to the writer: how can you tell a story in 50 words or fewer? How do you sketch out a character, or evoke an emotion, or create humor or suspense, with such limited resources?"
BRATTLEBORO-Credit Royall Tyler or Lucy Terry Prince or even Rudyard Kipling, but Windham County is still full of poets and writers. Tyler, by the way, who lived in both Guilford and Brattleboro, was, in 1787, the writer of the first American theatrical comedy. It played in New York City. Prince, kidnapped in Africa and sold into slavery before she was freed, settled in Guilford and was the first known African American poet in the United States. And Kipling, well, we...
Legal experts gathered for an online panel about challenges being faced by Vermont's creative and nonprofit community amid an ever-evolving federal landscape. Specifically, the presentation focused on how organizations are faring under executive orders that aim to impact funding decisions. "We want to make sure that the business community, whether you are for profit or nonprofit, is aware of current legal issues," said Nicole Killoran, attorney, professor of law, and director of the Vermont Small Business Law Center, which provides...
Dan DeWalt, a frequent contributor to these pages and one of the founders of this newspaper, writes that if he didn't love his country, he "wouldn't spend so much time trying to get it to live up to its purported principles." WILLIAMSVILLE-Censorship is coming into vogue thanks to the tender feelings of the snowflake Trump administration. To maintain their fiction of white supremacy, MAGA word warriors are busy excising inconvenient words, phrases, and facts from government websites and documents. No...
WEST BRATTLEBORO-Eighteen artists from the Connecticut River Chapter of Vermont Watercolor Society are exhibiting their work at All Souls Church, 29 South St., through Nov. 30. The public is invited to a reception Friday, Nov. 21, from 3 to 6 p.m. With more than 240 members, the Vermont Watercolor Society is dedicated to promoting the awareness and appreciation of watercolor to its membership at all levels of ability and to the larger community by providing opportunities and venues for participation,
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Women's Chorus invites the community to join in song and celebration at their 30th annual fall concerts, entitled "Circle Round," directed by Becky Graber and Anna Patton. The concerts are Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 22 and 23, at 4 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center. Sunday's show will also be livestreamed and recorded. These concerts feature close to 100 singers "raising their voices together in a spirited and heartfelt program about connection, gratitude, and courage," wrote organizers in...
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as a "Constitution Wrangler." She was a moderator of a panel at the recent Brattleboro Indivisible exhibition "What Does Democracy Look Like?" PUTNEY-The year 1949 was not a good year to be Black in America. Having just risked their lives fighting fascism abroad, Black soldiers returned to Jim Crow laws and cross-burnings in the middle of the night. Literacy tests kept African Americans from voting, and...
Adam Grinold is executive director of the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation. For more about the work of the organization and its regional partners, visit brattleborodevelopment.com. BRATTLEBORO-At the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation's recent 71st Annual Meeting, gathering with regional stakeholders and partners reminded me of the power of collaboration in rural economic development. Our region has a long history of coming together to face challenges head-on. When the closure of Vermont Yankee loomed, a neutral, policy-oriented task force formed to understand,
-The political chatter surrounding the government shutdown and cuts in benefits has been discouraging for many area residents who qualify for food and other benefits. The people in charge of trying to make sure that everyone in Windham County has food have a message for them. "Don't get discouraged," Sue Graff, the Agency of Human Services food service director for the region, advised county residents who qualify for food and other assistance. "Make sure you apply for these programs." The...
BRATTLEBORO-Come Dec. 6, when the lease runs out, the community art space on Elliot Street known as 69A will be closing. "We absolutely love our landlords; they're amazing people," says 69A Director Lisa Marie of building co-owner Ashok Kumar. Artist Katie Bachler and her husband, Scott Berzofsky, took out a one-year lease to "make a community space." "Our lease is up and they have plans for this space, and the building's for sale," says Lisa Marie. "We understand completely." The...
BRATTLEBORO-Work to develop the fiscal year 2027 budget is starting in the Windham Southeast School District, and the school board's Communication Council wants the community to be engaged in the process. Ultimately, the school board will recommend a budget to be presented for a vote at the WSESD Annual Meeting on March 17, 2026. Among ways for community members to participate is attending Finance Committee meetings, which will be held Nov. 24 and Dec. 1. WSESD board meetings are always...
BRATTLEBORO-Members of the Vermont School District Redistricting Task Force are in final meetings to analyze how to shrink education costs. Last week, the 11 members, who are in favor of voluntary district mergers, said that rather than pursue a map based on counties or career and technical education (CTE), they now favor a 10-year plan with district incentives to merge so as to gain state construction aid and develop regional high schools with regions sharing cooperative services. "I'm proud of...
DUMMERSTON-As turkeys are getting dressed and with hall-decking around the corner, Vermont Theatre Company (VTC) offers counterpoint. As described by a VTC press release, this weekend's evening of four one-act plays offered at East Dummerston's Evening Star Grange promises audience members a "dark and unsettling night of theater full of psychological thrills and tender moments" in a show that will "crush you and give you hope for humanity, all in one evening." 'A dark psychological thriller' First in the program's...
RANDOLPH-Vermont's state chapter of the Democratic Party has a new leader - and he's taking the helm at a challenging moment for the party in Vermont and across the country. Lachlan Francis, a political consultant from Westminster and former chair of the Windham County Democratic committee, was elected state party chair on Nov. 15 at Vermont Democrats' biennial reorganization meeting. Francis beat out one other candidate for the job - Justin Willeau of Vershire, the former secretary of Orange County's...
BRATTLEBORO-Supporting live music at an iconic local venue and helping Windham County residents in need: That is what is taking place at Stone Church on Saturday, Nov. 29. A few days after Thanksgiving, local food shelves could be bare, so New York–based Shakedown Citi - a Grateful Dead tribute band - decided to do something. The band is asking audience members to bring non-perishable food items to the show to help replenish the local food offerings at Foodworks, the food...
