press release

Homebrew festival returns to area on Saturday afternoon

BENNINGTON - The Southwestern Vermont Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Hopridge Farms, will present the Southern Vermont Summer Homebrew festival on Saturday, August 6, from noon to 4 pm at the Bennington Sports Center on North Street.
The festival will also have a focus on the...

Roast pork supper on Saturday

READSBORO - South Readsboro Community Club will host a roast pork supper Saturday, July 30, from 5 to 7 pm at 1359 Bosley Hill Road. Donations of $15 for adults and $7 for children. For more information call (802) 423-7667.

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...

Committee to caucus

WHITINGHAM - The Whitingham Democratic Town Committee will hold a caucus on Tuesday, August 2, at 7 pm at the Whitingham Municipal Center. The purpose of this caucus is to nominate Democratic candidates to serve as justices of the peace.
Any registered voter of Whitingham who has not...

Workshop offers advice on researching heritage

DOVER - Would you like to get started with your family genealogy? Know a little but want to know more? Come to the Dover Free Library, 22 Holland Road, on Saturday, July 30, from 10:30 to noon. Learn the most efficient ways to research, the best websites - a lot of them are free - and pitfalls to...

Branch Pond chicks. Nicki Steel

Loon presentation, showcase at library

WARDSBORO - Wilmington photographer Nicki Steel will be highlighting loon photographs at the Wardsboro Public Library for the month of August. She will also give a presentation, “Loons of Southern Vermont,” at the library on Thursday, August 4, at 6 pm. The presentation will be followed by a Q...

Rotary Club holds tour of local barns

DEERFIELD VALLEY - The Rotary Club of the Deerfield Valley held its third annual tour, “Barns, Live Music and Art,” on Saturday, July 16, raising close to $12,000 to help the local community.
Ticketholders got to see five local barns, including “The Art of Humor,” where Skip Morrow’s...

Open mic on pizza night

WEST TOWNSHEND - On Saturday, July 30, there will be a special event at the West Townshend Country Store. Liana Gabel, who is one of the women who built the store’s new pizza pavilion, will be doing a fun, family-friendly, concert-open mic during pizza night, from 5 to 7 pm. She is a talented...

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...

“Dear Gretchen: Letters to My Dog” by Heidi Parker Colonna

Reading with Colonna

WILMINGTON - Bartleby’s Books will host a reading with author Heidi Parker Colonna on Saturday, July 30, at 4:30 pm. Colonna will read from and discuss her book “Dear Gretchen: Letters to My Dog.”
Five years after her shepherd mix Gretchen died and a year before her 30th birthday, Colonna...