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PUTNEY-Twilight Music and Next Stage Arts Project continue the 22nd Twilight On The Tavern Lawn series of bluegrass, Americana, world, swing, and pop music summer concerts on Sunday, Aug. 10, at 6 p.m ...

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) and Bennington County Regional Commission (BCRC) are jointly announcing the 2025 call for project submissions for inclusion in the ...

Wilda L. White, Hilary Melton, and Malaika Puffer are founding directors of MadFreedom Advocates, Inc., a grassroots, nonprofit organization run by and for psychiatric survivors, mad folks, and others ...

TOWNSHEND-The smallest hospital in Vermont is not going anywhere. One provision of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1), which President Donald J. Trump signed into law on July 4, constrains state ...

BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) has been ranked by the Lown Institute Hospital Index (2025–2026) as Vermont's No. 1 acute care hospital in the areas of patient outcomes, patient ...

PUTNEY-Natalie Dreyer, the new executive director of Next Stage Arts, brings with her a wealth of arts administration experience and her happiness at becoming a full-time member of the community.

BRATTLEBORO-The Good Trouble Street Choir, The People's Resistance Marching Band and Indivisible Brattleboro say they are planning to combine forces once again and make some "Good Trouble" on Thursday ...

Lachlan Francis chairs the Windham County Democratic Committee. WESTMINSTER-Democrats in the state Legislature scored some significant wins for Vermonters this year - despite a political and budget ...

Much has been written about the effort expended on changing the way Vermont's education is provided. So what else of interest happened this session? Windham County's lawmakers, all Democrats except ...