Brattleboro News

According to the Vermont State Police, on May 18, Constable Stephen Oakes was dispatched to the home of Sara Vitale to serve her a civil violation for owning unlicensed and unsecured dogs.

"Are Artists Special?" was the title of an amusing and insightful talk that the painter Wolf Kahn gave at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on Saturday.

Spring marks the start of another growing season, with all of the delicious and nutritious food produced from our fertile soils.

It all started with a stroll ... a slow walk, if you will, down Main Street, that highlighted Vermont's historic agricultural dairy economy.

Windham County Sheriff's deputies last week escorted Charles E. Drake from Florida to Brattleboro to face charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a teenage girl here.

"When the Spirit Comes" will be the sermon on Sunday, May 27, at 10:15 a.m. at Centre Congregational Church in downtown Brattleboro, in observance of Pentecost Sunday.

"Are Artists Special?" was the title of an amusing and insightful talk that the painter Wolf Kahn gave at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on Saturday.

A man has pleaded guilty to drug charges stemming from a case that included the fatal shooting of a woman in Vermont.

Tim Weiner has won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and he spent 16 years writing for the New York Times.

There are the neighbors we wave to, the neighbors we complain about, the neighbors we share yard equipment with, carpool with, gossip with.

On Memorial Day, it's customary to remember fallen soldiers, but this year, I'll think of Marsha Snyder, of Pittsfield, Mass.

The 1940s will come alive again in Saxtons River when the Butterfly Swing Band and World War II veteran Jack Keil team up on Saturday, June 2 for an evening of music and reminiscences.

As case manager for the RISE program at the Phoenix House on Western Avenue, John Colleran has recognized that look in his clients' eyes when they make the decision to begin turning their lives around.

It started civilly enough with a one-on-one question and answer session with various members of the NRC, including Chris Miller, director of the division of reactor safety.

Sadie Holliday of Brattleboro was named to the 2012 spring semester dean's list at the University of Vermont.

Activities and menus for the week of May 28 at the Brattleboro Senior Center at 207 Main St.

For the first time since Gov. Peter Shumlin announced his plan to open a downtown campus for Community College of Vermont and Vermont Technical College, leaders of both schools were in town to meet with government and business leaders and try to move the plan along.

COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: There will be a community supper, followed by a conversation about Athens and local food, at the Athens Community Church, Brookline Road, on Thursday, May 24, at 6 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Greater Falls Great Food, an organization whose purpose is to help make locally-produced food accessible and affordable to ... (more)

On May 19, Steven Flack, of Bellows Falls, was cited for domestic assault after police responded to the scene just after midnight.

"Are Artists Special?" was the title of an amusing and insightful talk that the painter Wolf Kahn gave at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on Saturday.