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NEWFANE-The Historical Society of Windham County's annual "Soup Fest and Silent Auction" will be held Sunday, March 29, at the NewBrook Fire Station on Route 30. The event will help raise funds for the Society's West River Railroad Museum and the Windham County History Museum, both located in Newfane.
Sample homemade soups from restaurants along the old West River Railroad Line from Brattleboro to Londonderry: The Vermont Country Deli, Brattleboro; Willow, Williamsville; The Newfane Store; Harmonyville Store, West Townshend; West River Community Project, West Townshend; West Wardsboro Store; West River Provisions, Jamaica; Family Kitchen & Pizzeria, Winhall; and The New American Grill, Londonderry.
Doors open at 4 p.m. Admission is free and suggested donations of $10 are greatly appreciated. Bidding and the 50/50 raffle opens at 4 p.m. and ends at 5:30 p.m. Soup and bread will be served at 5:30 p.m., with desserts to follow.
For more information, email info@historicalsocietyofwindhamcounty.org, or visit the Historical Society of Windham County's website at historicalsocietyofwindhamcounty.org.
PUTNEY-Gordon Clark and the Vermont Comedy All Stars return to Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, for a live stand-up comedy showcase Friday, March 27. Doors open at 6:45 p.m., with the show starting at 7:30 p.m. The lineup will be: • Zoe Bernstein, a local comic, has shared...
Lunchtime movement and mindfulness at RFPL BELLOWS FALLS — Rockingham Free Public Library’s Lunchtime Movement and Mindfulness classes will be Thursdays, March 26, and April 2 and 9, from noon to 1 p.m. Participants may drop by for one class or come to them all. Randi Graham, a certified...
Obituaries • John R. “Skip” Bonnett, 73, of Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Died March 16, 2026, surrounded by loved ones, at his home following a lengthy illness. Skip was born on Aug. 28, 1952, the son of Frank and Allene Bonnett. Raised and educated in Hinsdale, he attended Hinsdale public schools. Upon graduation, he proudly served with the National Guard. He was hardworking and a dedicated employee and was recently employed at the Windham Solid Waste Management District in Brattleboro, where...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts presents an Open Mic evening hosted by Vermont Timbre (Amelia Struthers and Mike Mrowicki) Sunday, March 29, at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6:15 p.m. The evening will include a featured performance by guitarist and songwriter Peter Siegel of The Gaslight Tinkers. The Open Mic offers a welcoming and supportive stage for musicians, poets, storytellers, and performers of all kinds to share their work. Performers will have 10-to-15 minutes for their sets, depending on the number...
Here are the topics and locations for the forums being held around Brattleboro as part of “No Kings 3.0” on Saturday, March 28, in the words of the people organizing the events: • Forum A: Relationships and Conversations, Politics in Small-Town America. “How to listen deeply and talk about what matters — relational organizing can restore democracy — and we already know how to do it. Let’s get out of our own way and remember how to not just persuade...
BRATTLEBORO-On Saturday, April 4, at 3 p.m., ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal St., kicks off poetry month with Joan M. White, along with a variety of faith-inspired poetry shared by the community. White is an established poet who explores the seasons—both the seasons of a year and the seasons of human life. “Her poems are tender and quietly powerful,” said organizers in a news release, “drawing on inspiration from nature, humanity, and spirituality. With an intuitive connection to nature,
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation's (BDCC) annual Summer Career Bootcamp will return this summer Monday through Friday, July 13–17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro. Students have the option to participate in just the morning, or the full day. Morning sessions will feature the bootcamp's hallmark soft-skill workshops, exploration of career pathways, and behind-the-scenes glimpses at various local businesses. Afternoons will include 1-on-1 career coaching, job internship application support, and next-step career planning.
MONTPELIER-Officials at the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department have been receiving reports of bears coming out of their dens. They urge Vermonters to remove their bird feeders and take additional steps now to prevent conflicts with bears over the spring and summer. "Do not wait to take down your bird feeders and bear proof your yard until [after] a bear comes to visit," said Jaclyn Comeau, the Fish & Wildlife Department's bear biologist. "You need to act now to head...
WILMINGTON-The Southern Vermont Deerfield Valley Chamber of Commerce will host its annual “Vermont Craft Beer & Chili Stroll” Friday, March 27, from 4 to 7 p.m. in downtown Wilmington. The event couples Vermont craft beers with chili created by some of the best chefs in the area. Tasting stations will be located at Ratu’s Liquor & Market, Pickwell’s Barn, Mill & Whistle, The Village Roost, Memorial Hall, Alpenglow Bistro, The Vermont House, Incurable Romantic, and Bartleby’s Books, with musical performances...
PUTNEY-Putney Public Library “Writers Salon,” a winter Zoom series, welcomes Emma Paris and Roxanne Bogart Thursday, March 26, from 7 to 8 p.m. The salon hosted by the library and Toni Ortner, who lives in Putney and has had 34 books published by small presses. Most recent are The Van Gogh Notebook by Dancing Girl Press and Prayers Are the Kites We Fly by Rockwood Press. Paris and Bogart will be reading from their work. Paris, the 2025–26 Vermont Youth...
Jean Anne Kiewel is an attorney in Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-The Iran war is just as much Trump's war if not more than Netanyahu's. This week, Joe Kent, sympathizer of Nazis and white supremacists and head of the National Counterterrorism Center under President Donald Trump, resigned from the administration in protest of the Iran war, saying "it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby." In his resignation letter to Trump, Kent also...
BRATTLEBORO-Conductor and pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn will perform Sunday, March 29, at 4 p.m. as part of the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC) Chamber Series. The program will feature an arrangement revised and recorded by Solzhenitsyn in 2014 of Joseph Haydn’s “The Last Seven Words of Our Savior on the Cross,” HOB. XX:IC (1786). Solzhenitsyn is a winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and the principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony...
BRATTLEBORO-An ounce of prevention can sometimes truly lead to a pound of cure. One example of this maxim in action is the Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program — run by Brattleboro Memorial Hospital and Rescue Inc. — which just won the 2026 American Hospital Association Rural Hospital Excellence in Innovation Award. Traditionally, emergency medical technicians (EMTs) respond to medical emergencies in a time of crisis. With MIH, EMTs come to a patient’s home and prevent the crisis before it can...
BRATTLEBORO-The first week of March was an important one for live music. During this time, the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) took Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster to court. They claimed the company had an illegal monopoly that blocks competition in live event promotion and ticketing, resulting in high ticket prices for fans and forcing smaller competitors out. The case also alleged that the company uses coercive tactics to dominate the market. The DOJ...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) nurses voted on March 23 to authorize a strike, if necessary. No date for a strike has been set. According to a news release, an “overwhelming supermajority” of BMH nurses, represented by the Brattleboro Federation of Nurses (BFN), voted for the strike authorization. The vote follows what BFN called “stalled negotiations, with management continuing to propose concessions that nurses say would hurt patient care and drive staff away.” Proposals by BMH management include no wage increases...
-The annual celebration of high school basketball in Vermont, the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association (VBCA) Senior All-Star Games, were held at Windsor High School on March 21. More than the four all-star games that were played over the course of the day, it was also a chance to celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of student-athletes, coaches, officials, and contributors from across the state. The girls and boys who became 1,000-point scorers this season were recognized. They included Brattleboro’s Reese Croutworst, who...
WEST DUMMERSTON-The Dummerston Fire Department celebrated the recent arrival of their new tanker truck with a “push-in” ceremony March 21 at the main fire station on West Street. Many community members showed up to cheer their firefighter neighbors as they “pushed” the Tanker 1 into the station, in keeping with an old fire service tradition to welcome new trucks in a firehouse. The motor rumbled at a slow idle, and its emergency lights flashed. Retired Fire Chief Allen Pike was...
Lise Sparrow is a representative of the Justice and Witness Ministries of the Vermont United Church of Christ and of Vermont Interfaith Action. BRATTLEBORO-This week, Brattleboro will bid farewell to Chief of Police Norma Hardy. When she interviewed for the job in 2021, she spent the night at the Latchis Hotel and took some time to walk up and down Main Street, getting a feel for the town. Hardy had been assistant chief of police for the Port Authority of...
James Freedman (Jim.freedman@gmail.com) is a leadership consultant working in the global health-care sector. BRATTLEBORO-When President Donald Trump was asked recently what ultimately constrains his power in decisions about foreign policy and the use of American force, here is what he said. "My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me." It is an extraordinary statement for any president to make, let alone this one. This remark may be the clearest description yet of how this...
BRATTLEBORO-With a back-up bullhorn in place and a patient crowd, a power outage didn’t much faze annual meeting attendees at Brattleboro Union High School on March 17 as they voted to approve the Windham Southeast School District’s (WSESD) proposed fiscal year 2027 operating budget of $69.9 million. The budget represents estimated per-pupil spending at $15,972 — 0.8% higher than the current year. Finance Committee Chair Ruby McAdoo noted an overall 2.6% budget increase to this year despite an anticipated rise...
MaryDiane Baker volunteers as Action Corps Vermont organizer for Vermont. BRATTLEBORO-I write with clarifications in response to Rep. Laura Sibilia's Commentary on the Defend the Guard Act. I echo her stance that many supporters of H.355 are veterans who "want clear congressional votes before war." H.355 is not a feel-good resolution: It speaks to her weighty concerns for those veterans, for the need of clarity and protection from Congress. It is grounded in the Constitution itself. No one is talking...
-“No Kings 3.0,” which organizers hope will be the biggest mass protest in U.S. history, is set to take place Saturday, March 28, throughout the country, including events in Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, and Wilmington. No Kings is a mass, nonviolent movement against the policies and behavior the Trump administration and has already mobilized millions — from more than 5 million participants for the first No Kings protest June 14, 2025, to more than 7 million people joining more than 2,700...
WILLIAMSVILLE-The Rock River Players present “The Power of Mythology in Creative Life,” a talk by Allison Stieger, Thursday, March 26, 7 p.m. at Williamsville Hall. The evening will include a talk with visuals followed by a Q&A session. Artists and creative thinkers of all types are encouraged to participate. Stieger founded Mythic Stories in 2004 to support creative individuals and organizations in unlocking the sacred stories that illuminate their untold potential. With a master’s degree in mythological studies with an...
Michelle Bos-Lun (D-Windham-3), is a third-term Democrat representing Westminster, Rockingham, and Brookline. She is a teacher and has worked in restorative justice. WESTMINSTER-My phone was vibrating. “Dr. Fuld Oncology” appeared on the screen. I was two weeks into my journey of having unexpectedly developed lung cancer as a 59-year-old never-smoker. I wasn’t sure what to expect. Lung cancer is the biggest killer of all cancers. It causes more deaths than colorectal, prostate, and breast cancer combined. It isn’t an easy...
