Pettee Memorial Library is one of the local libraries that will see some of its funding restored. File photo

The Center for Solace hosts “Kitchen Table Conversation: After Death Care,” on Tuesday, May 13, from 3 to 4:30 pm, at the center, 191 Canal Street in Brattleboro. Join an informal conversation about what end-of-life care plans exist or can include. Topics will include green burial (picture above) and at-home after death care. Space is limited; RSVP to Denise Glover at denise.glover@cfsolace.org. enter will hold its annual planting service at the memorial garden in Living Memorial Park, on Thursday, June 12, from 5 to 6 pm. The service includes reading the names of friends and family who have died, making memorial stones, music by Hallowell, and planting annuals throughout the garden. To have a name included in the reading email Lars Hunter at lars.hunter@cfsolace.org.

Amelia Urquhart, 3, reads to one of Dover Free Library’s Storybook Coop chicks. The eggs were incubated this spring and they hatched on Monday, April 28. During the incubation time, children came to the library to chart observations and participate in egg candling events. This is the second year of the program and some of the eggs were from last year’s flock. Photo courtesy DFL
Looking out from home plate at the Twin Valley Elementary School ballfield.  After the baseball outfield and soccer field were resurfaced last year, teams from Twin Valley Youth Sports are once again using the field.

Pettee Memorial Library is one of the local libraries that will see some of its funding restored. File photo

The Center for Solace hosts “Kitchen Table Conversation: After Death Care,” on Tuesday, May 13, from 3 to 4:30 pm, at the center, 191 Canal Street in Brattleboro. Join an informal conversation about what end-of-life care plans exist or can include. Topics will include green burial (picture above) and at-home after death care. Space is limited; RSVP to Denise Glover at denise.glover@cfsolace.org. enter will hold its annual planting service at the memorial garden in Living Memorial Park, on Thursday, June 12, from 5 to 6 pm. The service includes reading the names of friends and family who have died, making memorial stones, music by Hallowell, and planting annuals throughout the garden. To have a name included in the reading email Lars Hunter at lars.hunter@cfsolace.org.

Amelia Urquhart, 3, reads to one of Dover Free Library’s Storybook Coop chicks. The eggs were incubated this spring and they hatched on Monday, April 28. During the incubation time, children came to the library to chart observations and participate in egg candling events. This is the second year of the program and some of the eggs were from last year’s flock. Photo courtesy DFL
Twin Valley unified athlete Brady Lackey lines up his shot during Monday’s Unified Basketball game with Burr & Burton Academy. Pointing the way is unified partner Konner Janovsky. 

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Sports

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    Twin Valley catcher Seth Wrathall just missed this tag on a Poultney baserunner during Wednesday’s game. Photo by Victoria Capitani
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    Twin Valley pitcher Sara Dix
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