PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...
The Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development recently announced its fiscal year 2018 municipal planning grant recipients. “As Vermont continues to grow its economy, maintain a high quality of life and attract new people and business to the state, Municipal Planning Grants help communities accelerate local solutions, energize downtowns, and remove barriers to much-needed housing,” said Department of Housing and Community Development Commissioner Katie Buckley in a Dec. 5 news release. Windham County was well represented in this year's...
From the cracks of our culture, the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis have risen again in a fury of hatred and violence. On Aug. 28, 1955, a black 14-year-old from Chicago, Emmett Till, was tortured and murdered by two Mississippi Klan members. The nation took notice. The arc of the moral universe is long. While visiting his uncle in Money, Miss., Till had apparently offended the protocols of the “Southern way of life” so proscribed by the Jim Crow caste...
Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of acoustic/electric Americana music from Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., by The Slambovian Circus of Dreams (aka The Grand Slambovians) at Next Stage on Friday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. The music of The Slambovian Circus of Dreams has been described as “hillbilly-Floyd,” “folk-pop,” “alt-country, roots-rock” and “surreal Americana.” A rootsy psychedelica that Maverick magazine calls “mightily impressive and hugely original rock from the cool end of Americana,” the quartet's melodic avant-folk...
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