WINDHAM-Approximately 40 people gathered at the Windham Meeting House on June 17 for "What's Possible,
BRATTLEBORO-Three school districts will begin their summer meals programs, distributing free, weekly meal kits to...
WESTMINSTER-After completing its 25th school year of operation, The Compass School recently and abruptly announced...
BRATTLEBORO-Last week, the Vermont Legislature adjourned after passing a controversial education reform bill that many...
The long discussed merger of the municipal governments of the town of Rockingham and the village of Bellows Falls appears to be off the table for now. Bringing town and village municipal governments under one board is still the way to go, according to village resident and former School Board member Jim MacAuliffe. He authored the newest merger plan after the Merger Committee's year-long research effort. The resulting proposal failed to garner enough votes last fall. On the heels of...
Having been elected recently to serve on the Brattleboro Selectboard, I'd like to update your readers on one of the concerns that led me to run. With regard to emergency medical services in Brattleboro, I asked: What happened in the process of reaching a new agreement, and what have we learned from it? The response to my question has often been that Selectboard members and the town administration can't talk about it because of the separation agreement reached with the...
Have you ever wondered how it would feel to act in a Shakespeare play with little to no rehearsal? That's exactly the sort of production New England Youth Theatre's Alumni Association is attempting with “Shakespeare Unrehearsed: The Taming of the Shrew,” a fundraiser to benefit NEYT's Angels in the Wings Scholarship Fund. For the third consecutive year, NEYT's Alumni Association is following Shakespeare's own production schedule: this show, as in the Elizabethan-era, will afford no more than 10 hours' rehearsal.
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