Brattleboro News

Activities for the week of Aug. 4 through 8 at the Brattleboro Senior Center at 207 Main St. in Brattleboro are as follows: The annual trip to the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine is scheduled for Aug. 7 and 8 for $309 double and $369 single.

Bartleby's Books will host three poetry reading by three poets on Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 7 p.m. Robin Becker, Lee Bramble and Arlene Distler will each read from their most recent poetry collections, answer questions from the audience and sign their books.

The Brattleboro Retreat, the state's largest psychiatric hospital, is reviewing its polices to ensure the safety of patients and staff after recent attempts at suicide or self-harm and a violent incident that left several workers injured on a secure adolescent ward.

The Selectboard will visit the four sites proposed by the Skatepark Site Selection Committee as the best options for a new 6,500-square-foot skatepark in Brattleboro.

Priscilla Cotton, who was hired to oversee the interior design of the Brooks House, keeps an old black-and-white post card taped to the inside of the folder she is using during the rehabilitation of the historic building.

Aug. 3 is the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost and Holy Communion at the First Congregational Church United Church of Christ, 880 Western Ave. in West Brattleboro.

After King derided Morgan's interview skills and called him pompous, Morgan responded on Twitter on Friday that King was a "graceless, petty little man."

According to TMZ, Tran went nuts recently when Brown "liked" two fan photos of Rihanna and him together on Instagram.

The United States Geological Service said the 1.7-magnitude earthquake was reported at 6:18 a.m. near the town of Thetford.

Customers order lunch on Thursday from Vintage Victuals Snack Bar, a new feature at KOA Campground on Route 5 in Dummerston.

The Driftwood Outdoor Cafe and Gallery is the new place to relax by one of Brattleboro's most beautiful watersides, the Whetstone Brook at 28 Williams St. West side of the Whetstone Studio for the Arts.

Windham & Windsor Housing Trust is offering an interesting and informative 8 hour workshop for first time homebuyers at their office located at 68 Birge Street in Brattleboro.

Let me guess how you feel about your urine: Get that smelly stuff away from me as fast as possible? A small group of environmentalists in Vermont aren't as squeamish.

To help bring attention to the critical need in the country and New England for specialized mental health care services for the LGBT community, the Brattleboro Retreat is presenting the Boston Gay Men's Chorus Live at the Latchis on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 pm.

Brattleboro elementary schools are closer to buying electricity at a reduced rate after the Vermont Public Service Board rendered a decision Tuesday to authorize the installation of a 500-kilowatt solar net-metered electric generation facility on Solar Park Road in Westminster.

On Aug. 14, at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden, the Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies is hosting a regional public discussion and question and answer session regarding the process of implementing a regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.

During Friday evening's Gallery Walk, the Celebration Brass Band will be on hand to entertain at the Robert H. River Garden, home of Strolling of the Heifers on Main Street in Brattleboro.

The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company continues its summer of quality theatre with the eagerly anticipated production of the legendary Broadway show A Chorus Line.

A Houston company that already sends human remains out of this world will offer the same memorial space flights for four-legged loved ones.

Officials in Guilford, Vermont, are dealing with fallout from a repair project to a covered bridge that's closed the structure for about six weeks.