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BRATTLEBORO-On the Spring Equinox, Friday, March 20, Center for Solace invites the community to “Move for Solace,” an early evening dance party fundraiser.
The event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at Saxtons River Distillery, 155 Chickering Drive. A cash bar will be available. Space is limited, so arrive on time.
With the tagline “Shake off winter. Move your body. Be home by 9,” Move for Solace offers “a chance to gather, exhale, and reconnect through music and movement,” organizers wrote in a news release, “all while supporting a vital local nonprofit.”
Music will be provided by DJ Mālama, spinning a mix of funk, disco, R&B, and other favorites to keep dancers moving and spirits lifted.
Brattleboro Town Report now available BRATTLEBORO — The 2025–26 Brattleboro Town Report is currently on the town’s website, Brattleboro.gov. It can also be found at bit.ly/857-report, as well as at Brooks Memorial Library. Mott examines ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ at Putney Library PUTNEY — Constitutional scholar Meg Mott delves...
BRATTLEBORO-Tessitura, directed by Mark Nelson, is a chamber choir that explores music of the Baroque and Modern eras. This concert features “Music of Monteverdi and Poulenc,” Sunday, March 22, at 3:30 p.m. at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC), 72 Blanche Moyse way. Claudio Monteverdi and Francis Poulenc, despite their...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts and Twilight Music present a singer-songwriter showcase featuring Andrea von Kampen, Early Risers (Putnam Smith and Ashley Storrow), Jake Klar, and Lizzy Mandell at Next Stage Friday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. The Early Risers, Klar, and Mandell will open the concert with an in-the-round set, followed by von Kampen’s debut performance at Next Stage. Andrea von Kampen is a Nebraska-born singer-songwriter known for her “introspective storytelling and captivating melodies,” organizers wrote in a news release. She...
BRATTLEBORO-The Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center and the Green Mountain Conservancy invite everyone to a listening session to learn more about the Vermont Conservation Plan being developed to carry out the vision and goals of Act 59, the Community Resilience and Biodiversity Protection Act, passed by the Vermont Legislature in 2023. The session will take place Tuesday, March 24, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Retreat Farm’s North Barn. Pizza will be served. Act 59 establishes a statewide framework for land...
Obituaries • Robert Harry “Bob” Duckless, 92, of Brattleboro. Died March 5, 2026, after celebrating his 92nd birthday on Feb. 19 with a family pizza party. Bob was born on the family farm in Newport Center, the middle child of five. His parents were Forrest Edward Duckless and Lillian Mae Butler. At Newport Center High School, he played basketball and baseball while holding jobs at Kelley’s in Derby Line and, later, as a driver for the Newport Creamery. He remembered...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Department of Public Works advises residents that changing temperatures in the coming weeks may affect the condition of gravel roads throughout town as winter frost leaves the ground and daytime temperatures increase. This seasonal process, often referred to as “mud season,” softens the road structure and can lead to muddy surfaces, ruts, and uneven travel conditions on gravel roads. Public Works staff will be monitoring these roads and providing status updates daily through roadside signage, which will be...
BRATTLEBORO-The Latchis Theatre will host the filmWisdom of Happiness, a cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, for a week beginning Friday, March 20. On Saturday, March 21, the film will be shown at 7 p.m., followed by a post-screening discussion on compassion, awareness, and ethical action with John DiLeva Halpern, artist, filmmaker, meditation teacher, and cultural activist. Now 90 years old, the Dalai Lama speaks directly to viewers in Wisdom of Happiness and offers practical advice for navigating the 21st...
PUTNEY-The Putney Public Library, 55 Main St., presents “Dreams of Color,” an exhibit of watercolors and collaged bookmarks by Claire Halverson, through May 30. The exhibition, which is open to all during the library’s operating hours, includes many small, landscape-based watercolors. Halverson, who lives in Dummerston, says she paints what she sees and loves during her walks in Vermont. She began doing artwork years ago. She explored varieties of graphics — woodcuts, lithographs, and etchings. She studied at the Museum...
BRATTLEBORO-Vermont Theatre Company (VTC) presents I, Joan, by playwright and actor Charlie Josephine. It is the imagining of the story of Joan of Arc as a “genderqueer warrior stepping into their power and identity — full of vulnerability, humor, tragedy, dance battles, absurdity, and revolutionary spirit,” wrote organizers in a news release. The legend portrays Joan of Arc as a teenaged peasant, leader in the French army, a heretic who refused to stop wearing men’s clothing — as a martyr,
WARDSBORO-Wardsboro Curtain Call and Wardsboro Public Library present “Many Meanings of Maple,” Saturday, March 21, at 1 p.m. at the Wardsboro Public Library. Maple is far more than a seasonal treat in Vermont. It is a cornerstone of the state’s economy, ecology, and cultural heritage. “From sugarbushes tucked into rolling hills to the unmistakable ritual of spring sugaring, maple helps define what it means to live, work, and belong here,” wrote organizers in a news release. In this talk, Champlain...
Howard Fairman describes himself as “a private citizen (not a lawyer).” PUTNEY-Billing recipients of fire-department services is not as simple as it seems. While questioning publicly the town of Putney’s proposed “new revenue stream,” I learned: • Twenty-seven southeastern Vermont towns that are members of the Southwestern New Hampshire District Fire Mutual Aid System are subject to its By-Laws and Mutual Aid Firefighting Assistance Agreement and to Vermont laws. • Some fire departments serving these towns are Vermont nonprofit corporations...
Karl Meyer is a journalist whose particular focus is giving voice to the key truths of the Connecticut River. GREENFIELD, MASS.-It’s time to consider postponing the April celebrations at Lexington and Concord — maybe just until federal troops no longer patrol the nation’s capital and anonymous, armed agents stop terrorizing our cities. Perhaps hold off until we’ve reinvigorated and reinforced our constitutional rights under the First and Fourth amendments. Freedom Trail celebrations held under the eye of a tyrant will...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital may be on the brink of a nurses’ strike. This is not good news for the hospital, as it comes on top of a disappearing chief executive, the resignation of its chief financial officer, an influx of hospital financial experts, the recalculation of a $14.5 million budget deficit that will take between two and three years to eradicate, and an ongoing top-to-bottom examination of costs and services that includes mediation with two unions. The unions are not...
GUILFORD-Just when so many of us are ready to accept that this Vermont winter will never end, the sap starts running. At the annual Sugar on Snow Supper at Broad Brook Community Center (BBCC) on March 7, neighbors sat shoulder to shoulder at long community tables passing around the deviled eggs, baked beans, mashed potatoes, dinner rolls, and coleslaw made by Broad Brook Grange members and others in the community. Volunteers — ranging in age from tweens to nearly 90...
ATHENS-It took Kate Casa all of a few days to offer a predictable full-throated diatribe blaming Israel for the war in Iran while ignoring the tyrannical regime in control that has terrorized America, the world, its own people, and yes, Israel, for nearly five decades. Given Casa’s openly hostile stance against the Jewish state, the fact she blames suffering of ordinary Iranian civilians on Israel surprised exactly no one. But I do commend her ability to pack a remarkable number...
-Opening day for high school baseball in Brattleboro is less than a month away — Tuesday, April 14, to be precise — and fans will have something to really cheer about. For the first time since 2017, the grandstand at Tenney Field at Brattleboro Union High School will be open to spectators when the Bears take on Mount Anthony in the season opener. It will mark the completion of a years-long effort to save the historic structure. A wooden grandstand...
Nancy Braus , a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. GUILFORD-One of the major reasons we have watched the remains of American democracy slip through the hourglass with barely an obstruction is the fecklessness of the Democratic Party. As the Republicans have spinelessly united behind the policy of siccing the barely trained, heavily armed, masked Gestapo force into our previously peaceful cites and attacking citizens and noncitizens alike with no legal framework and certainly no humane limitations, the Democrats...
Mark A. Berman is a trial attorney and appellate litigator. This piece is a response to “Vermont guardsmen are in harm’s way. And for what?” [Viewpoint, March 11]. ATHENS-In two recent opinion pieces, Laura Sibilia and Dan DeWalt offered critical perspectives on the United States’ use of force in Iran. However, their similarities end there. While Ms. Sibilia dispassionately explains the legal framework governing the mobilization of the National Guard, Mr. DeWalt launches into a polemic against Israel, asserting that...
BRATTLEBORO-As Norma Hardy sits down to talk about her four-and-half-year tenure at the Brattleboro Police Department, it’s clear what’s top of mind for her. The departing police chief points to a 2-inch-thick stack of paper — printouts of department emails and texts — that she will provide for a public records request from someone in Massachusetts. “I don’t know what they’re going to do with it. They’re probably going to try to use it for the same purposes,” she says,
BRATTLEBORO-It has taken years and years for Chloe Learey, executive director of the Winston Prouty Center, to raise funding to begin building the Village at Winston Prouty on the former Austine School campus in Brattleboro. Now Brattleboro native and State Treasurer Michael Pieciak has given the project a major boost. On March 12, Pieciak stopped off in Brattleboro to join a party of 40 or so of the town’s movers and shakers and to announce that $4 million from his...
Tom Boswell is a lifelong community organizer, journalist, and award-winning poet residing in Brattleboro. Editor's note: The Vermont Defend the Guard Act remains in the Government Operations and Military Affairs Committee and at this point in the legislative session, its fate is grim, and it would have to be filed anew for the next biennium. BRATTLEBORO-If you are sick and tired of the United States fighting so-called forever wars - wars that seem to drag on for years or decades...
BRATTLEBORO-“Step into the world of Tape Art Mega Corp. (TAMC), where creativity meets corporate chaos — and everyone’s hired on the spot.” So opens a recent press release from Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). While an empty office suite on the first floor of 28 Vernon St. awaits BMAC’s future plans, it will become, from March 21 to 29, the site of TAMC’s latest installation: a bustling new “corporate headquarters” created “from top to bottom using nothing but imagination...
Lucas Farrell and Louisa Conrad operate Big Picture Farm, a goat dairy and confectionery. TOWNSHEND-We wake each morning 50 yards from our barnyard in Townshend. From our window we watch the hills change with the seasons - crocuses pushing through thawing soil in April, red maples igniting in October. In just a few weeks, our goats will begin giving birth, the first kids spilling into the late-winter light. Our daughters, 9 and 5, are growing up here, learning the rhythms...