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BRATTLEBORO — Full-year access stickers for the Windham Solid Waste Management District (WSWMD) transfer station on Old Ferry Road are now on sale for $60, the same price as last year. Access stickers are required to drop off trash, recycling, and food scraps/organics.
This is an opportunity for first-time transfer station users to grab their sticker early on and essentially get two months free. Those already in the program choose whether to get their new sticker early or wait until June 30 to renew and have continuous support for trash, recycling, and composting needs. Whether access stickers are bought now or July 1, the sticker numbers will be valid until June 30, 2027.
Visit windhamsolidwaste.org/transfer-station/disposal-and-recycling-fees to see what WSWMD accepts, whether an access sticker is needed, and the current price listings. A number of services do not require an access sticker to use, such as disposal of liquid paint in cans, electronics, batteries, and more.
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BELLOWS FALLS-Eclectic Alaskan finger-style guitarist Kray Van Kirk appears at Stage 33 Live, 33 Bridge St., Sunday, May 17, in a 3 p.m. matinee. Van Kirk set aside his Ph.D. in fisheries population dynamics modeling to write songs and tell stories. “We are driven by myth and the seasons...
PUTNEY-Next Stage Arts presents two film screenings curated by local filmmaker Alan Dater, offering audiences a chance to experience iconic moments in American music history on the big screen. Both events will include in-person introductions and post-screening discussions with Dater. On Saturday, May 9, at 7 p.m., Next Stage...
Obituaries • Virginia Stone (Weis) Bourne, 95, of Castine, Maine, died in mid April, just shy of her 96th birthday. She was born in 1930 in Lancaster, Massachusetts. She always considered herself a small town girl and was both glad and proud of it. In 1950, she married Standish Bourne, who survives her. She is also survived by four children: Elizabeth Bourne and Ann Kebbell of Westminster, Sandy (Standish) of Dummerston, and Frederick of Litchfield, Connecticut, and their families. Virginia...
BELLOWS FALLS-Roots musicians Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore are bringing their blend of country, blues, folk and “guitar-bashing rock and roll” to the Bellows Falls Opera House Saturday, May 9. A few years back, Grammy-winner Alvin and multiple-Grammy-nominee Gilmore decided to join forces and play music together. Although Texas-born Gilmore was thrice named Country Artist of the Year by Rolling Stone, and California native Alvin first came to fame in the hard-rocking rhythm and blues band The Blasters, they...
BRATTLEBORO-The Sarasa Ensemble takes a closer look at the extended Bach family and its many musical talents in a performance at the Brattleboro Music Center (BMC), 72 Blanche Moyse Way, titled “All in the Family,” Friday, May 8, at 7 p.m. The program highlights works for oboe, strings, and continuo by Johann Sebastian Bach and family members — sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, second cousin Johann Bernhard, and wife Anna Magdalena. “Johann Sebastian Bach belongs to a family...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Harmonia (formerly the Brattleboro Women’s Chorus) will present its 30th anniversary spring concert, “The Sound Shelter of a Thousand Songs,” on Mother’s Day, May 10, at 4 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre. This afternoon of music will mark a milestone: the conclusion of Becky Graber’s 30-year tenure as the director of the choral group she founded in 1996. In a symbolic passing of the pitch pipe, Graber will co-direct this final performance alongside the chorus’ future director, Anna Patton,
BRATTLEBORO-Latchis Arts announces an event they say will bring audiences to their feet: “Movie + A Walk.” It will feature a special screening of the movie The World Before Your Feet followed by a casual walking tour of Brattleboro led by the film’s subject, Matt Green. The event will begin Saturday, May 16, at 1 p.m., at the Latchis Main Theatre. From Jeremy Workman, who also directed the smash hit documentary, Secret Mall Apartment, The World Before Your Feet documents...
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Literary Festival will host James Schiff and Michael Updike for a virtual “Literary Cocktail Hour” Wednesday, May 13, at 5 p.m. Festival organizers said in a news release that they are excited to host Schiff in conversation with John Updike’s son Michael for a literary conversation focused on Schiff’s latest book, The Selected Letters of John Updike. “John Updike remains one of the most admired and prolific voices in American Literature,” wrote organizers. “Over five decades, he produced...
BRATTLEBORO-Friends of the Brattleboro School of Dance (BSD) proudly present BSD’s 2026 Spring Show, “Continuum: Celebrating 50 Years of Dance,” a milestone performance honoring five decades of artistry, education, and community. Organizers say this year’s production is “both a celebration of the school’s rich history and a vision for its evolving future.” BSD’s annual Spring Show brings together dancers of all ages in a dynamic, multigenerational performance that highlights the breadth of the school’s programming. The 2026 production, under the...
WATERBURY-According to the most recent Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted by the Vermont Department of Health, LGBTQ+ middle and high schoolers in Vermont are two to three times more likely to report poor mental health and more likely to turn to substance use than their heterosexual cisgender classmates. The Health Department offers these ways to help support LGBTQ+ youth: • Have regular and open conversations about mental health. • Use the names and gender pronouns that they provide. • Challenge...
BRATTLEBORO-The Windham Regional Commission (WRC) will present a draft of the Windham Regional Plan update at two public meetings: Thursday, May 7, at 5:30 p.m., at the Winston Prouty Center, 209 Austine Drive, Holton Hall, fourth-floor conference room; and Wednesday, May 20, at 6 p.m. via Zoom (access information available at windhamregional.org). WRC assists 27 towns in southeast Vermont to provide effective local governance and address regional issues, such as providing guidance on the future. It is used for WRC’s...
TOWNSHEND-On Wednesday, May 13, the polls will be open in the towns of Brookline, Jamaica, Newfane, Townshend, and Windham for the registered voters of those towns to vote on a revised FY27 budget for the West River Modified Union Education District, more commonly known as the WRED. This district covers the educational needs for all students in the listed towns except for elementary expenses in the Town of Windham. The original budget was voted down on April 8 with a...
-The Brattleboro Bears and Bellows Falls Terriers varsity baseball teams are in a down cycle this season, with smaller rosters and lots of inexperienced players. They faced each other May 1 at Tenney Field in a game that served as a good barometer for where they both stand. BF managed to take care of the key things — pitching, defense, and hitting — and came away with an 8-3 victory over the Bears, a team that has been struggling in...
Nancy Braus, a retired independent bookseller, is a longtime activist. Her surgery took place on May 4, and she reports that her care at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital “was wonderful.” GUILFORD-I have now very reluctantly and angrily joined the club of women (and a few men) with treatable breast cancer. It’s treatable. But it’s terrifying. I am fortunate that my local hospital has moved very quickly from ultrasound to surgery, as I very much look forward to the unwelcome intruder leaving...
Bill Holiday, a retired veteran social studies teacher of 48 years, believes in exposing students to primary sources in history and would introduce his students at Brattleboro Union High School to people — like Alan Carter — who could tell them firsthand about their lived history. Holiday is a member of the board of trustees of the Brattleboro Historical Society. DUMMERSTON-On April 29, 1975, as artillery pounded the outskirts of Saigon and thousands of desperate Vietnamese people pressed up against...
BRATTLEBORO-Starr LaTronica became a librarian for the connections it allows her to make with other people. “It’s serving people,” she recently told The Commons. “That’s what I’m about. And that’s what I’ll always be about. I know my strength is a passion for community engagement. I know that I have a lot of other weaknesses. And so I’m grateful for my staff for picking up the pieces and making this place keep going.” LaTronica, 72, became head librarian at Brooks...
BRATTLEBORO-The Vermont Jazz Center is honored to welcome trumpeter Sean Jones and his touring quartet — including Seth Finch (piano), Aiden Taylor (acoustic bass), and Koleby Royston (drums) — to the VJC’s Cotton Mill Hill venue on Saturday, May 16. Trumpeter Sean Jones has been described on Newark NPR affiliate WGBO’s program The Art of the Story as “one of the predominant voices of his generation.” His resume resonates with awards and accolades from the jazz media, including Trumpeter of...
BRATTLEBORO-Daniel Quipp, a former chair of the Brattleboro Selectboard, has announced his candidacy for the Vermont House of Representatives seat representing Windham-8, following Rep. Mollie Burke's decision not to seek re-election. Quipp, who works as a program coordinator in the family services department at Southeastern Vermont Community Action (SEVCA), says he is running to bring practical, collaborative leadership to Montpelier - and to keep the lines of communication open with the people he would represent. "Brattleboro deserves a representative who...
BRATTLEBORO-On the second Saturday in May — May 9 this year — letter carriers and rural letter carriers throughout the region will be “carrying out” the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, an annual one-day food drive with nationwide scope and local impact. We ask all who are able to join us in participating. Simply leave a bag of nonperishable food items by your mailbox or drop it at your post office. Healthy and high-protein donations are encouraged. No glass containers,
BRATTLEBORO-With a new executive director at the helm and a recently relocated office, the United Way of Windham County is embarking on what administrators describes as a period of listening, learning, and renewal - with community connection at the heart of its refreshed mission. Rebecca Baruzzi, who stepped into the executive director role Jan. 5, came to the organization from Green Mountain United Way in Central Vermont, where she was director of community impact. She has spent her first months...
Emily Carris Duncan (ecarrisduncan.com) represents the Windham-6 district (Wilmington, Whitingham, and Halifax) in the Vermont House of Representatives. WHITINGHAM-I have been spending time sitting with Act 181, listening intently to the community’s concerns. I’ve been sitting with my own concerns about the law. We have many interests to balance as we look to the future: the needs of our community members, youth and adults alike; the needs of our natural environment; and the needs of our built environment, including preserving...
GUILFORD-In January, Vermont's Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) announced the awarding of just over $1 million in municipal planning grants across 47 cities, towns, and villages. Intended to "support local planning and community revitalization initiatives," these grants provide state funding for updating zoning bylaws and town plans, conducting feasibility studies, and planning for infrastructure and development. The recipients included the town of Guilford, which was awarded $30,000 to explore and develop its first land-use bylaws, and the DHCD...
