Putney News

Twilight Music presents newgrass and contemporary folk trio, The Stockwell Brothers, on Sunday, July 12 in the fourth concert of the seventh annual Twilight on the Tavern Lawn series.

A little more than 14 months ago, the future of the Putney General Store was in doubt.

At first glance, there don't appear to be too many similarities between our straightlaced Gov.

Guilford will celebrate the Fourth of July with a parade and a town wide picnic at the Broad Brook Grange.

Twilight Music presents an evening of high-energy accordion/guitar driven dance music of Louisiana with Planet Zydeco on Sunday in the third concert of the seventh annual Twilight on the Tavern Lawn series.

Abutting land owners and local zoning boards have fewer opportunities to weigh in on proposed cell towers under the state's new telecommunications law.

A grand mountaintop estate near Walpole, N.H., with acres of lush gardens and 50-mile views, will be the site of Saturday's 40th anniversary celebration and concert with musicians from the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival.

Yellow Barn Music Festival will open its 40th anniversary season this summer with a bang, as its Big Barn concert hall in Putney rocks with the sounds of the Brooklyn-based percussion ensemble, So Percussion, a well known quartet of young men who enjoy hitting things - drums, glockenspiels, toy pianos, coffee cups, metal pipes and more.

"SICK PUPPY'' This annual new-music seminar at New England Conservatory draws its memorable nickname from its acronym, SICPP, or the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice.

Yellow Barn Music Festival opens its 40th anniversary season Sunday as its Big Barn concert hall in Putney rocks with the sounds of the Brooklyn-based percussion ensemble, So Percussion, a well known quartet of young men who enjoy hitting things.

In the wake of a fatal stabbing Monday on Elliot Street, many town residents may be wondering how safe they are in their own neighborhoods.

The members of the United Church of Putney did not want to simply close their doors.

Tickets are available now for the July 3 Vermont Symphony Orchestra open-air concert and fireworks at Grafton Ponds.

A proposed cell tower that T-Mobile wants to construct in a rural residential neighborhood is causing some static between neighbors.

There was never a dull moment. This, according to Dao-Yuan Chou, biographer of Joan Hinton and Sid Engst, was the reply of the two Americans as to why they continued to stay in China to witness 'the commoditization of a saturated society.' Asked how they felt about 'the utter devastation of what their generation of cadres had devoted their lives ...

The Selectboard plans to ask residents to approve an additional $18,135 in spending after the town's projected assessment for the Windham Solid Waste Management District more than doubled from the amount printed in this year's town report.

STATE OF VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY VERMONT STATE POLICE PRESS RELEASE INCIDENT: Stalking, Resisting Arrest, Violation of Conditions of Release CASE #: 09D201465 INVESTIGATOR: Detective Trooper Francis LaBombard STATION: Bureau of Criminal Investigation - Troop D - Brattleboro Barracks CONTACT#: 254-2382 DATE/TIME: June 05, 2009 at 17:45 ...

Gallery Walk, Brattleboro's monthly first-Friday celebration of the arts, has circled around again with 44 listed stops.

Vermont lawmakers have partially reinstated funding for the state's tobacco control efforts, which had been scheduled for a $1.9 million hit in the new state budget.

Hosting a play date can be a tall order for single, working parents. Putney Books owner Sarah Baker knows first hand.