Brattleboro

Local hospice holds scavenger hunt

BRATTLEBORO - On Saturday, August 13, Brattleboro Area Hospice will host the hospice amazing hunt, a new fundraiser that kicks off from the River Garden Marketplace at 1 pm. Teams will compete to score the most points while navigating downtown Brattleboro, collecting clues, solving riddles,...

Winter farmers’ market applications open

BRATTLEBORO - Vendor applications are now being accepted for the 17th season of the Brattleboro winter farmers’ market.
The winter market will open for the 2022 to 2023 season on Saturday, November 5, and will operate through March 25, 2023. Weekly market hours will be 10 am to 2 pm. A...

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...