Brattleboro

Karen Fortier

Fortier promoted to managerial postition

BRATTLEBORO - Brattleboro Savings & Loan announced the promotion of Karen Fortier as the bank’s new deposit operations manager. Fortier has been a part of the BS&L family for seven years, working in a number of different customer-facing roles, including branch manager for both the Putney...

Classic drag-queen movie to be shown outdoors for teens

BRATTLEBORO - Join the Brooks Memorial Library Teen Advisory Board in the library parking lot for a teens-only outdoor movie night on Friday, August 5, from 8 to10 pm, to watch “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.”
Elite NYC drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson are...

Retreat offering services for health care workers

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Retreat, a leading specialty psychiatric hospital for people of all ages, is now accepting patients for its Healthcare Professionals Program.
Launched as a remote clinical service, the program offers partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programming...

Mie Yim poses with pieces from her exhibit.

Exhibit walkthrough

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present two events with New York-based artist Mie Yim in connection with the exhibit “Fluid Boundaries”: a walkthrough of the exhibit on Thursday, August 4, and a chalk art activity during Gallery Walk on Friday, August 5.
Yim...

Action at the 2021 paddlesports championship. Kelly Fletcher

Riverfest Weekend to make a splash

BRATTLEBORO - The Connecticut River Conservancy’s first-ever Riverfest Weekend will kick off Saturday and Sunday, August 6 and 7, in Brattleboro and Hinsdale, NH, highlighted by the 44th annual New England paddlesports championship on Sunday. Riverfest promises family-friendly near-river and on-...

Frank Jackson

Create transfer prints with local artist

BRATTLEBORO - “There/There” is an exhibit of abstract landscape paintings by Frank Jackson, made on burlap using the quick-drying medium of fresco. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a transfer prints workshop with Jackson. The workshop will take place at River Gallery School on...

Exhibits include large, touchable felt sculptures by Metz.

The possibilities of felt

BRATTLEBORO- A new group exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center explores the diverse possibilities of the medium of felt, from felted family portraits to surreal felt furniture to giant, touchable felt sculptures. On view in the museum’s Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery, “Felt...

A past fireworks show over Mount Snow. Facebook

4th of July celebrations around town

By Amelia Nick
SOUTHERN VERMONT- The Deerfield Valley will have many Fourth of July events and celebrations this weekend happening everywhere from Wardsboro to Brattleboro.
In Dover, on Friday July 1, Mount Snow will host a base area block party with live music by the Drew Angus...

Lars Hunter

Preacher participates with Pride

BRATTLEBORO - The Rev. Lars Hunter, a parishioner from St. Mary’s in the Mountains in Wilmington and a recently-ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church, will be preacher and deacon for Pride Sunday this week at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church.
Hunter is the bereavement program coordinator...

Exploring Abenaki relationships to water

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a special opening celebration for “Nebizun: Water Is Life,” a multimedia art exhibit that explores the Abenaki relationship to water, on Friday, June 24, at 7 pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
The evening will...