Your support powers every story we tell. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
Your support powers every story we tell. We're committed to producing high-quality, fact-based news and information that gives you the facts in this community we call home. If our work has helped you stay informed, take action, or feel more connected to Windham County – please give now to help us reach our goal of raising $150,000 by December 31st.
BRATTLEBORO-The town, with technical assistance from consultant MSK Engineers, invites the community to join a local concerns meeting, a discussion about the Black Mountain Road Scoping Study, via Zoom on Thursday, March 19, at 6 p.m.
The project seeks "to address chronic road washouts that create financial stress to the town, impair the water quality of the Crosby Brook, and create localized flooding," according to a press release from the town.
The purpose of the meeting is to receive comments and concerns about existing conditions from local residents and the public.
The study will examine the costs and benefits of reclassifying a segment of Black Mountain Road from 460 Black Mountain Rd. to Kipling Road, narrowing the roadway width, restricting access to bicycles and pedestrians, and replacing a culvert at the intersection with Dickinson Road and a culvert across from Black Mountain Park.
MARLBORO-Celebrating its 75th anniversary season this summer, Marlboro Music — the chamber music school and festival under the artistic leadership of pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss — will bring together some 80 exceptional musicians from around the world for seven weeks of intensive musical collaboration, exploration, and performance.
BDCC’s Windham Leadership Series to explore housing and infrastructure solutions BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) will host the next session of the Windham County Leadership series Thursday, March 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Retreat Farm’s North Barn, 136 Farmhouse Square. The event, “The Blueprint...
BRATTLEBORO-Latchis Arts announces the return of “Exhibition on Screen,” a pioneering series of cinematic documentaries about artists and exhibitions of their work at major international museums and galleries. The series returns to the Latchis Main Theatre on Saturday and Sunday, March 14 and 15, at 4 p.m., with Turner and Constable. The series continues on Saturday and Sunday, April 4 and 5, with a showcase of the work of Caravaggio. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, Turner and Constable...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Adult Learning (VAL) is helping more Vermonters gain safe, legal access to the road through a growing partnership with the Vermont State Highway Safety Office’s Enhanced Driver Safety Program, in collaboration with the Windham County Sheriff’s Office. VAL instructors have been working closely with Sgt. Chris Norton, Windham County Highway Safety Coordinator with the Vermont State Highway Safety Office’s behavioral change unit, and Michael Roj to deliver adult driver education using state-of-the-art driving simulators installed at VAL’s Windham County...
BRATTLEBORO-Tiny Theater and ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., invite the community to a free St. Patrick’s Day celebration Tuesday, March 17, from 5 to 7 p.m. at ByWay Books. “This event is about bringing people together through story, music, and shared tradition,” said event organizers Severia Drake and Bob Marcus. “We hope to create a warm and festive space where the spirit of Ireland comes alive in the heart of Brattleboro.” This lively cultural gathering will celebrate the...
Obituaries • Thaddeus “Thad” Betts, 87, died peacefully at home Feb. 16, 2026, after a period of declining health. He was born in Brattleboro Aug. 16, 1938, to Benjamin D. Betts and Eleanor (Townsend) Betts. Much of his life, growing up and in adulthood, was spent at “Staghead Farm,” his parents’ horse farm, which he loved. He attended schools in Dummerston and Brattleboro, but graduated from Poquoson (Va.) High School, where his family had relocated. After high school, he enlisted...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) is hosting a benefit concert for the Windham County Heat Fund Saturday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. at the Jazz Center on Cotton Mill Hill. The concert will celebrate the 80th birthday of bassist Cameron Brown, who has been teaching at the VJC’s Summer Jazz Workshop since 2006. His contributions and “historic legacy” will be honored as he and his New York–based band perform, wrote organizers in a news release. “The 21st year of the...
BRATTLEBORO-Many rallies and vigils at Pliny Park have protested the actions of the Trump administration so far this year, highlighted by gatherings decrying the U.S.’s ongoing intervention in Venezuela and the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis. So, when U.S. forces attacked Iran on Feb. 28, it was not surprising that a vigil protesting those attacks took place the next day at Pliny Park, and that another protest took place there a...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) Chamber Series will feature violinist Bella Hristova and pianist Anna Polonsky Friday, March 13, at 7 p.m. The performance at the BMC will include the Vermont premiere of a new piece by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ellen Taafe Zwilich, co-commissioned by the BMC, entitled “Carousel.” The program also includes Bach’s Sonata for violin and keyboard in C minor, BWV1017, and Sonata for violin and keyboard in F minor, BWV 1018; and Grieg’s Sonata No. 2 in...
BRATTLEBORO-A benefit concert, “Meeting the Moment: Music for Community, Justice & Service,” will be held Saturday, March 14, at 7 p.m. at Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main St., to support the Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group’s upcoming service and learning trip to Charleston, South Carolina, during April break. The concert will feature youth musicians from a cappella groups Shoulder Narrows and the Alsos, the Brattleboro Area Middle School Selects choir, bands Lovelace and Sammy & Brothers, and Becky Graber leading...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, presents “Race & Song: A Musical Conversation,” by veteran musicians and storytellers Pamela Means and Alastair Moock, Saturday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m. Race & Song is an exploration of history and current events “through the lens of race, using music as both catalyst and connective tissue,”described organizers in a news release. Drawing on their long-standing friendship, Means and Moock invite audiences into thoughtful, generous conversations about race, class, gender, and history “grounded in...
BRATTLEBORO-On Saturday, March 14, at 3 p.m., ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., will host Jessie Haas, author of Dearest Blood: A Romance of the Revolution, published last year. This historical novel is a well-documented story of Fanny Montresor, a young woman whose fate was determined by an approaching war, the politics rousing the insurrection between New York and Massachusetts, and her impending romance with Ethan Allen. In 1777, at the Westminster County courthouse, citizens declared Vermont to be...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) will host the next session of the Windham County Leadership series Thursday, March 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Retreat Farm's North Barn, 136 Farmhouse Square. The event, titled "The Blueprint for Growth: Financing and Managing Local Development," will focus on practical strategies to advance housing and infrastructure in Windham County through coordinated state and local action. Register at bit.ly/856-housing. Vermont is at a crossroads where the demand for housing and modern infrastructure...
TOWNSHEND-The Leland and Gray Players are busy rehearsing their one act play, She Kills Monsters, by playwright Qui Nguyen. Shows are open to the public Wednesdays, March 18 and 25, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 22, at 2 p.m. in the Dutton Gymnasium/Theater. This year’s show is about Agnes, a high school senior who attempts to learn more about a recently deceased sister, Tilly. After Tilly’s death in a car accident, Agnes discovers a “Dungeons and Dragons” notebook in...
WESTMINSTER-On Feb. 12, Southeastern Vermont Community Action (SEVCA) sustained substantial damage to its main office at 91 Buck Drive in Westminster due to a fire. No injuries occurred, and SEVCA said in a news release that it is “deeply grateful to the Westminster Fire Department for their swift response, which prevented further damage to the building.” While their Westminster building is closed to the public at this time, SEVCA says it “remains fully operational and committed to serving the community.
HALIFAX-An early March snow coated the ground around the Halifax Elementary School. Meanwhile, inside the school's gymnasium, Halifax voters gathered for Annual Town Meeting, wrapped in savory scents rising from an army of slow cookers on standby for the lunch break. Voters took approximately 90 minutes to consider 11 articles during the meeting's municipal portion. All the articles passed as presented. Among the decisions, voters approved $30,000 to replenish the Operational Reserve Fund, which covers disaster expenses; they eliminated the...
-Throughout the regular season, the Twin Valley Wildcats established themselves as one of the top teams in Division IV boys’ basketball. With the one-two scoring punch of Brayden and Landon Brown and a strong supporting cast, the Wildcats had seven wins when they scored more than 90 points, including three 100-plus point games. They earned the No. 5 seed in the Division IV tournament and kept their regular season momentum rolling by winning their first two playoff games to advance...
BRATTLEBORO-Southern Vermont’s Community Asylum Seekers Project (CASP) is calling for artists and craftspeople from all disciplines — and sponsors — to participate in its second annual Arts Marathon, a fundraiser for area asylum seekers. Throughout April, area creatives will potentially be drawing, painting, sewing, blowing glass, throwing pots, photographing, writing, composing, sculpting, and so on — sharing their work regularly with friends, family, and community members who sign up as their sponsors. Put simply: Sponsors pledge a donation to CASP...
Meg Mott is a professor emerita and former town moderator. She will be speaking on the Pursuit of Happiness at 6:30 on Thursday, March 19 at the Putney Public Library. Information: putneylibrary.org/events/. PUTNEY-When Americans consider the famous sentence of the Declaration of Independence we rarely get past first base. “We hold these truths” guides us through equality and unalienable rights, and then we land on “the pursuit of Happiness” as if we’d scored the necessary points. But the sentence keeps...
Laura Sibilia, an independent, represents the Windham-2 district (Dover, Jamaica, Somerset, Stratton, and Wardsboro) in the Vermont House of Representatives. DOVER-I have heard from Vermonters, many of them outside the Windham-2 district I represent, about H.355, often called the “Defend the Guard Act.” I believe that outreach is happening in part because I come from a military family and serve as co-chair of the Vermont National Guard and Veterans Affairs Caucus. Issues affecting Guard members and their families matter deeply...
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.” SOUTH NEWFANE-The worst has happened. Donald Trump is starting a war, and will most likely get a very bad one. The Vermont National Guard has been sent to the Middle East. Guardsmen will be put in harm’s way and...
ROCKINGHAM-The newly consolidated Rockingham Fire and Rescue Department (RFRD) is moving ahead with new equipment and other efforts to help ensure its ability to provide services to the entire town. To that end, in February, the RFRD acquired a new utility terrain vehicle (UTV) — and a trailer to transport it — to help in off-road fire and rescue operations. The department also has a Rockingham Community Risk Reduction program to help residents make sure their homes are easily identifiable...
Elizabeth Bridgewater and Libby Bennett — executive director of the Windham-Windsor Housing Trust, and executive director of Groundworks Collaborative, respectively — issued this joint statement on March 4 about the transition of programming at Great River Terrace, a complex intended to provide permanent supportive housing on Putney Road in Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-We are sharing an important transition in programming at Great River Terrace — one shaped by deep reflection, shared learning, and an ongoing commitment to resident stability. When our organizations...
BRATTLEBORO-Current Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) Board co-Chair Kimberly Price was re-elected to represent Brattleboro for a three-year term after besting Richard “Rich” Leavy in the March 3 district election, 1,285 to 1,059. In the contest for a one-year seat representing Dummerston on the board, Paul Smith took the seat, beating Daniel Everlith, 1,230 to 758. “I want to thank everyone that voted for me,” said Price, a former Windham Southeast Supervisory Union middle school science teacher and the district’s...
BRATTLEBORO-While the town’s Representative Town Meeting Finance Committee issued a “short preview” of its independent budget report and it was not exactly on board with the about $27 million budget the Selectboard voted to recommend in January, things may have changed. For sure what has changed post-annual election is that the vote kicked in a few new wrinkles that are set to be addressed at the Tuesday, March 10, Selectboard meeting after press time. Now that voters have eliminated Representative...
BRATTLEBORO-On March 11, 2011, four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, were destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami, triggering a disaster that still resonates worldwide. Within a swirl of mismanagement and misinformation, the nuclear catastrophe was one of the biggest in history. This Friday at 118 Elliot, Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) presents author, journalist, and scholar Thomas Bass in a talk on the disaster, the costs of “containing it, the lives of people living near Fukushima’s nuclear exclusion zone, and...