Brattleboro News

The state has fined Dollar Tree $100,000 for selling jewelry containing high amounts of lead and cadmium in violation of the Vermont Consumer Fraud Act, the Attorney General's office announced Monday.

A volunteer committee which has taken over the reins of the town's Fourth of July celebration will hold a public meeting next week to update members and the public on its efforts up to this point.

Artist Ethan Murrow will discuss his drawings and other artwork, including his collaborations with filmmaker Vita Weinstein Murrow, at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $6 adults, $4 seniors, $3 students, free for BMAC members and children 5 and under.

The Vermont State Police could study the possibility of merging the Shaftsbury and Rutland barracks into one facility.

When Samuel Beckett's brilliant, breakthrough comedy/drama "Waiting for Godot" first appeared on Broadway in 1956, the New York Times' Brooks Atkinson described it as "a mystery wrapped in an enigma." Since then it has been described as the most significant 20th century play in the English language.

All Souls Church Unitarian Universalist will kickoff its spring religious education program on Sunday, Jan.

There aren't many things members of the armed forces like getting better than something in the mail from a family member.

Coming to the United States from a foreign country can be hard for someone not familiar with the culture and the language.

The Selectboard voted to put the Chestnut Hill Reservoir up for sale at its Tuesday night meeting.

Just hours before delivering his annual budget address at the Statehouse, Gov. James Douglas was in town early Tuesday morning, previewing his proposal to tackle Vermont's significant fiscal shortfall.

A former Manchester man faces charges that he murdered his partner in their New York City apartment last week before fleeing to Vermont, where he was arrested Friday.

Activities and menus for the week of Jan. 25 at the Brattleboro Senior Center at 207 Main St.

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Brattleboro Police are looking for the man who violently mugged a 59-yearold woman on Flat Street Wednesday night.

"Have To Help Haiti", a collaboration between Brattleboro Arts Initiative and the Vermont Jazz Center, is a benefit concert to raise desperately needed funds to support Haiti in the aftermath of the recent devastating earthquake.

The ACLU has filed a suit against the Brattleboro Police Department on behalf of four protestors arrested last March.

Vermonters have a chance to get vaccinated against the swine flu this week, with 12 public clinics being held around the state.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont is suing Brattleboro police over the arrest of four protesters last year.

A Guilford man charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child pleaded not guilty in Windham District Court Tuesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont filed a lawsuit last week against Brattleboro Police Chief Eugene Wrinn for arresting four people who protested during a speech by Gov.