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PUTNEY-Twilight Music welcomes two contemporary Celtic music groups to Next Stage Arts Friday, March 6, when the trio Kalos shares the stage with the duo If You Must Know.
Event promoters said in a news release that the “evening promises high-energy traditional folk infused with bold innovation, featuring pipes, fiddle, guitars, harp, and inventive arrangements that push tradition forward while honoring its roots.”
Kalos — Eric McDonald (guitar, mandolin, voice), Ryan McKasson (violin, viola, voice), and Jeremiah McLane (accordion, piano, voice) — are accomplished players of traditional Celtic repertoire.
“Their music is rhythmically driven, richly textured, and alive with spontaneity and joy,” wrote organizers. Drawing from traditional Scottish, Breton, American, and other music, the trio forges a contemporary sound.
Brattleboro Police host ‘Coffee with a Cop’ at The Works, March 5 BRATTLEBORO — On Thursday, March 5, from 8 to 10 a.m., officers from the Brattleboro Police Department and community members will gather at The Works Café, 118 Main St., to discuss community issues, build relationships, and drink...
BELLOWS FALLS-Fingerstyle guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto will perform a 2 p.m. matinee concert Sunday, March 15, at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge St. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door as available. Only 40 tickets will be sold. Tsukamoto is “a one-of-a-kind musician and composer,” organizers...
PUTNEY-The Putney Public Library and the local Beyond Plastics affiliate group, Third Act of Windham and Windsor counties (Win/Win), are sponsoring a community read of The Problem With Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late. The library has multiple copies of the book available for checkout to Putney Library cardholders — request a copy by emailing request@putneylibrary.org. A facilitated community discussion of the book will be held Tuesday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. at...
BRATTLEBORO-With another month left in the winter season, the Beloved Winter Shelter at 18 Town Crier Drive has successfully carried out its mission as the region’s extreme cold weather shelter. The shelter’s resources were tested during the three-week cold snap of late January and early February. At one point, said shelter director Cristina Shayonye, they were “open for 26 nights straight when we had been struggling to keep our doors open for just five days a week. “It takes a...
GUILFORD-Broad Brook Grange’s annual Sugar on Snow Supper will be held Saturday, March 7, at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford. The event is traditionally the first sugar on snow supper of the season in the area. The meal features ham, and the following homemade items: baked beans, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, rolls, doughnuts, and Guilford maple sugar on Guilford snow, plentiful this year. Pickles accompany the sugar on snow. There will be three seatings: 4:30, 5:45, and...
College news • Anna Bloom of Brattleboro and Eben Wagner of Brattleboro, both members of the Class of 2028, were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2025 semester at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. • Grace Conety and Sophia Hamm of Brattleboro, and Zadie Olmstead of Dummerston were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2025 semester at Simmons University in Boston. Obituaries • Julie Michelle Blake, 66, of Brattleboro. Died Feb. 19, 2026, at Pine Heights...
BRATTLEBORO-K. Curtis presents “White Space: An inquiry into nothingness,” an exhibit opening at the Harmony Collective, 49 Elliot St., Friday, March 6, at 6 p.m. and will be on display until April 28. Curtis said in a news release that these 13 new works “examine the questions why do we have to have more, do more, be more? When is it ever enough? And even more importantly who do we not get to be if this is the design of...
Newfane to explore Town Meeting changes; condemns ICE, Iran conflictNEWFANE - Voters gathered at Union Hall on March 3 to approve spending about $1.9 million for general and highway operations, put $497,000 in the Capital Reserve Fund, and provide $42,435 for 30 nonprofit and community organizations. Other spending approved included $25,467 for annual payments on the town's excavator and $6,750 for the Reappraisal Reserve Fund. Voters approved a pair of non-binding resolutions. The first, proposed by Dan DeWalt, was a...
Kate Casa, a former journalist and an editor of this newspaper in its earliest years, has worked for years in higher education, development, and communications. She has lived in and reported from the Middle East. BRATTLEBORO-Mainstream media coverage of the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran is couched in the language of self-defense and regime change. It’s ignoring the fact that Washington is acting as a proxy for Israel’s longstanding agenda targeting Iran. Israel’s foreign policy is not in America’s national interest...
VERNON-Vernon voters at Annual Town Meeting on March 2 approved an almost-level-funded school budget and added funds to the municipal budget for fire department recruitment. Voters approved a final amended town budget of $2,539,970. In its proposed budget, the Selectboard also decided to use $100,000 from the general fund to offset taxes. Town Meeting also approved the Selectboard's proposal to appoint the town treasurer - a move that town officials have described as a precaution due to "liability issues" -
Laura Chapman is a civic volunteer, social justice activist, and works with human-services nonprofits that help neighbors in need. PUTNEY-There are empty rooms while people are sleeping outside. Vermont’s General Assistance Emergency Housing program, commonly known as the motel voucher program, is administered by the Vermont Agency of Human Services through the Department for Children and Families’ Economic Services Division. The program provides temporary shelter to people experiencing homelessness when no other safe housing options are available. It pays participating...
-The eighth-seeded Brattleboro Bears were pushed hard by the No. 9 Colchester Lakers, but managed to come away with a 55-47 win in a Division I girls’ basketball first-round playoff game at the BUHS gym on Feb. 25. While Brattleboro never trailed in this game, the Lakers overcame an 11-0 run by the Bears in the first 4:30 of the opening quarter and almost pulled even by late in the second quarter. The Bears steadied themselves and finished the first...
DUMMERSTON-It was standing room only at Dummerston Town Meeting on Tuesday morning as more than 100 people crammed into the Dummerston School gym for the opening of the 2026 Town Meeting. Some were elders who had participated in many of these meetings over the years. Some were newer members of the community, many of them young families with small children. According to Dummerston School Principal Julianne Eagan, school enrollment is increasing. Apart from spending almost four hours (with a 45-minute...
BRATTLEBORO-Daylight Saving Time returns on Sunday, March 8, and the Joyous Fire String Quartet will celebrate the light with a concert that day at Brattleboro Music Center, starting at 4 p.m. “We are four dear friends who share decades of history and music-making together,” said cellist Sabine Rhyne. “We chose our name because we actively make it a priority to tap into the light of joy and the passion of inner fire in our music making.” The other members of...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Jazz Center is honored to present Miguel Zenón in concert with his long-standing quartet on Saturday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. The Grammy Award-winning saxophonist will appear with Luís Perdomo on piano, Matt Penman on bass, and Henry Cole on drums. With the exception of Penman, this group has been together for more than 25 years. In an advertising profile for music instrument manufacturer and supplier D’Addario, Zenón has discussed the positive attributes of working with the same...
Robert Fritz (robertfritz.com) works as an author, composer, filmmaker, and management consultant. Among his books is The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life. NEWFANE-One principle from physics is the “path of least resistance,” which observes that energy flows along the path of least resistance, with the underlying structure determining that path. In other words, the structure of anything will determine its behavior. Sometimes the path of least resistance leads to difficulty that,
BRATTLEBORO-Incumbent Selectboard Chair Elizabeth McLoughlin has been ousted by current board colleague, Amanda Ellis-Thurber, who is completing her first one-year term, for a three-year seat on the Selectboard. In a second race in the March 3 annual elections, incumbent first-year board member Isaac Evans-Frantz retained his seat for another term and will be joined by newcomer Eleanor "Nell" Mayo. In the first race, Ellis-Thurber received 1,556 votes, McLoughlin received 705, and newcomer Ken Fay - who dropped out of the...
ROCKINGHAM-In Australian voting Tuesday, with a large turnout of more than 500 voters, Rockingham citizens delivered a clear message: The town is looking ahead, not back. Eight candidates ran for three Selectboard seats, one of the most contested in recent town history. Amy Howlett defeated William Crowther 391 to 73, a more than 5-to-1 margin for a three-year seat on the board. In the race for the one-year seats, incumbent Bonnie North and Dalila Hall won handily with 315 and...
BRATTLEBORO-In one of the most highly controversial and anticipated votes in recent town history, voters went to the polls on March 3 and chose to discontinue Representational Town Meeting (RTM) after 65 years. Unofficial results, which were announced at about 8:40 p.m., showed that the vote to end RTM was close; 1,216 to 1,157. The vote to move to Australian ballot was 1,362 to 945, and the vote to move to a traditional Town Meeting, open to all registered voters,
Matthew Cunningham-Cook grew up in Brattleboro and lives in Costa Rica with his family. An award-winning investigative journalist and researcher, he is a writer and researcher for the Center for Media and Democracy. He has written for The Lever, The Intercept, The Nation, The American Prospect, Al Jazeera, and In These Times. SAN JOSé, COSTA RICA-Today, the dogs of war are howling. Confronted by an Epstein scandal spiraling out of control, Trump is letting his pit bull Marco Rubio dictate...
PUTNEY-The Putney Friends Meeting invites the community to attend a presentation and discussion of the Apartheid-Free Communities campaign to promote peace with justice in Palestine and Israel. The event will be held Sunday, March 8, noon to 3 p.m., at the Putney Friends Meetinghouse on Route 5. Quakers have long played an important role in peace and justice movements around the world. Steve Chase, a Quaker educator and activist, will speak about his personal journey from holding a Zionist perspective...
BRATTLEBORO-On Feb. 28, the Brattleboro Winter Farmers Market honored its 20th season of connecting farmers and producers with community through the depths of long Vermont winters. The Brattleboro Winter Farmers Market first opened Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006, in the heart of downtown Brattleboro at the River Garden. “From the start, our mission was to celebrate and grow the local food shed of the greater Brattleboro area,” organizers said in a news release. “After 12 years, we recognized the need to...
NEWFANE-Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., is now featuring artwork by Julia Duke through March. The show is a collection of 12 to 15 of the Brattleboro fabric artist’s quilts, which feature an array of patterns and color schemes in the form of quilted pieces, small quilts, and wall hangings. “I usually start with one piece of fabric, just pull it off the shelf, and then see what goes with it. I have an idea before...
GUILFORD-Growing up in Vermont means getting a formal education in appreciating winter. At 1 p.m. on Feb. 19, all 129 of Guilford Central School’s elementary students poured out of the school’s back doors for the first-ever GCS Winterfest. The sun was shining, the snow was sparkling, and the kids were revved up. Building on the success of the school’s inaugural Farm and Field Day in the fall, Principal John Gagnon asked Farm-to-School Coordinator Sarah Rosow to organize the event. Rosow...
BRATTLEBORO-It’s rare to see a woman-fronted metal show, and even more unusual to have an all-woman sound crew, even in 2026. But that’s who will put on the show when four acts — Sepssis, Awaiting Abigail, Under the Horizon, and Pulsfier — play at the Stone Church in Brattleboro on Friday, March 6, at 7 p.m. The concert celebrates students graduating from the Grrrls 2 the Front sound tech intensive, a program presented by Higher Calling Arts, the arts programing...
BRATTLEBORO-Lawyer, history scholar, and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore will host a series of local community conversations beginning this month at the Retreat Farm. The agricultural nonprofit and event venue has joined with Vermont Public and Vermont Community Foundation to offer “America at 250: A Four-Part Community Conversation about Our Country, Its Founding, Active Citizenship, and Community.” Each event in the series is to be hosted by Lepore, acclaimed author of These Truths: A History of the United States...