Brattleboro News

The Office of Admissions at Southern Vermont College will host Transfer Thursdays on July 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. "These sessions are specifically offered for prospective, transfer students who are interested in SVC," said Director of Admissions Jeremy Gibbons.

Greenberg's Lumber Yard will be closed by Sept. 1, because according to a member of the Greenberg family they could not reach a deal over the real estate property with the company they sold the business to last year.

"As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry."

On June 27, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Brattleboro Police Department responded to the Hannaford Supermarket on Putney Road for the report of a shoplifter.

Participants in the 5th annual "Going the Distance" ride for the Boys & Girls Club of Brattleboro on June 28th.

With the state pushing hard to reduce the amount of trash sent to landfills, Windham Solid Waste Management District is turning its attention to local schools.

At least one of the top candidates has turned down an offer to be Brattleboro's new town manager and the Selectboard is planning on providing an update on the drawn-out process at next week's meeting.

It's hard to be too discouraged when hundreds of people show up to watch a parade in a steady rain.

On Tuesday, July 8, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Hildene will host a "Native Pollinator Walk and Talk: Field Identification and Habitat Enhancement" with organic farmer, John Hayden, of The Farm Between.

You'd think that in the 21st Century, we could do things better than we did in the 1930's.

As a member of the House Education Committee, state Rep. Valerie Stuart found herself in the middle of one of the biggest debates of the 2014 session: Whether Vermont's small schools should consolidate.

The 140-year-old Brooks House in Brattleboro, Vermont, which is being renovated after a fire damaged the building in 2011, is expected to be ready for its first tenants soon.

The Brattleboro native has spent some time studying music in Switzerland with his British-American girlfriend, Agnes Coakley, and the two recently came back to spend the summer living and working with his father, violinmaker Douglas Cox.

There are plenty of reasons to be proud of being a Vermonter -- too many to list as a matter of fact, but the following is not one of them: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found that in 2013, adjusting for population, Vermont has the highest rate of guns traced and recovered in other states after being used for criminal ... (more)

On Sunday, July 6, at 10 a.m., the guest speaker at All Souls Church will be the Rev.

Sunday at the Dummerston Congregational Church, the Rev. Hal Harrison, beloved Conference Minister Emeritus, will preach.

Vermont State Police fire investigators and Winhall police are searching for the cause of a fire that destroyed a Winhall restaurant.

Given the rain falling early Friday morning, it seemed appropriate that members of Brattleboro's Free and Accepted Masons Lodge No.

July 6 is the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost and Holy Communion at the First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, 880 Western Ave. in West Brattleboro.

The menu for the week of July 7 through July 11 at the Bellows Falls Senior Center is as follows: The Senior Center serves Rockingham, Westminster, Grafton, Athens, and North Walpole and Walpole, N.H. Senior visitors from other surrounding towns are welcome.