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"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.

Despite Sen. John McCain's belief to the contrary, the situation in Iraq has become increasingly twisted and convoluted.

Ten children between the ages of 3 and 17 were confirmed to have been infected with whooping cough, or pertussis, in the month of June.

The Vermont Agency of Transportation will have to put $100 million worth of bridge, road and rail projects on hold if Congress does not shore up the federal highway trust fund by Aug. 1. In all, 38 projects could be affected.

A woman who died while tubing down the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts last weekend has been identified as a Vermont resident.

The woman who died while tubing down the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts last weekend has been identified as Vermont resident.

More than 80 percent of the electricity produced by a Westminster solar project that was recently approved by the Vermont Public Service Board is intended for use in Brattleboro town buildings.

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.