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Vermont legislative candidates say education funding has to be addressed
10-18-2024 7:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

If political partisanship worked the same way in Vermont as in much of the rest of the country, the state Legislature’s Democratic supermajority could be expected to face tough races this fall. An average homestead property tax increase of 14% would...


Art Notes: Norwich musician releases new album
10-16-2024 7:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Two years ago, Lisa Piccirillo was at an intermediate stage in a musical journey.She’d written a suite of songs during the pandemic, a process that had helped her work through some dark days and find a ray of light. She was ready to make a record and...


Theater Review: ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ looks at holiday’s origin
10-02-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Thanksgiving has always seemed to me the greatest of our holidays. The idea of a harvest festival, where families or tribes gather to celebrate their agricultural labors with a generous feast, might be outdated in the era of factory farming, but the...


Art Notes: Upper Valley performing arts venues busy doing their thing
09-18-2024 4:34 PM

By ALEX HANSON

This space has already taken note of Lebanon Opera House’s 100th birthday, in part because it’s kind of a rolling celebration.The dedication of the building took place on Oct. 29, 1924, so it seems fitting that the opera house’s fall season is perhaps...


Art Notes: Fair alternatives
09-11-2024 4:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Sometimes there’s an obvious subject for this column, such as the three music festivals I wrote about last week.But sometimes there isn’t. Instead there are a bunch of art opportunities that run counter to the big event, which this weekend is the...


Art Notes: Three Upper Valley music festivals set to take place this weekend
09-04-2024 6:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

The music festival is a feature of the automobile age. Even before Woodstock, the massive 1969 concert in Upstate New York, the Newport (R.I.) Folk Festival dates only to a decade earlier and the Newport Jazz Festival to 1954. Cheap gas brings people...


Art Notes: Bookstock is back on next year’s calendar
08-28-2024 5:31 PM

By ALEX HANSON

When this summer’s Bookstock literary festival was canceled, organizers were already looking ahead to next year.So it comes as no surprise that the Upper Valley’s biggest literary event is back on the calendar for 2025. The festival is scheduled for...


Art Notes: Whaleback benefit concert brings together former KUA bandmates
08-21-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Will Sheff had a cozy upbringing in Meriden. His parents were both teachers at Kimball Union Academy, the prep school at the heart of the village, and Sheff had the run of the campus, then was a student there.When he moved away, though, he struggled....


Public phones make a comeback in White River Valley
08-09-2024 7:02 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Patrick Schlott is still a young man, a 2016 graduate of what was then called Vermont Technical College, in Randolph. But he is old enough to remember when payphones were still ubiquitous.When he was a student at Montpelier High School, from 2008 to...


Art Notes: Joan Osborne to headline Lebanon Opera House’s Nexus festival
08-07-2024 7:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

For its first three years, Lebanon Opera House’s Nexus Music and Arts Festival has specialized in bringing less-heralded acts to an Upper Valley audience.The thinking, as opera house Executive Director Joe Clifford has explained it in years past, is...


Art Notes: Voloz Collective brings physical theater to Upper Valley
07-31-2024 6:02 PM

By ALEX HANSON

Five years ago this summer, Olivia Zerphy had just graduated from a theater school in Paris and was on her way back to her native Vermont, where she’d secured a residency for the Voloz Collective, the small theater company she and some fellow students...


Art Notes: Vermont Film Festival seeks attention for homegrown movies
07-24-2024 6:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

As an eight-year resident of Corinth, and a frequent visitor to his wife’s family there prior to relocating, Brian Carroll knew of the photographer Suzanne Opton, a fellow resident.But it wasn’t until a mutual friend, Kerry DeWolfe, expressed an...


Art Notes: Sculpturefest features work of Woodstock high alumna
07-17-2024 4:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

WOODSTOCK — Lela Jaacks’ interest in visual art dates to her years at Woodstock Union High School.After she graduated, in 1995, and before she headed off to Rhode Island School of Design, she helped Charlet Davenport with the myriad details involved...


Art Notes: The Junction Dance Festival focuses on public participation
07-10-2024 6:00 PM

By ALEX HANSON

For a long time, the primary venue for dance in these parts was Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center.The college incubated Pilobolus, the celebrated, New England-based modern dance company, which itself produced spinoff companies that make regular stops...


A Life: Gillian Tyler ‘was just sparkling’
07-07-2024 5:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — At Smith College in the 1950s, Gillian Lewis majored in visual art and minored in theater. Those studies presaged the direction her life would take after she moved to Thetford in 1960.Art was major, at least at first, as she made woodcuts...


Art Notes: Lebanon High School students put on play about school shootings
06-26-2024 5:04 PM

By ALEX HANSON

A little over a year ago, Seth Kelly and Arlo Hastings, who were then sophomores at Lebanon High School, had written a play they were hoping to produce.Because it was a Christmas play and their plan was to produce it in June, and because they thought...


Art Notes: Upper Valley’s summer arts off to a hot start
06-19-2024 4:33 PM

By ALEX HANSON

The heat is supposed to break by Friday, if the forecast is for real.That’s a good thing in general, but particularly for Randolph, where the Chandler Center for the Arts and other organizations have made big plans for International Make Music...


An end and a beginning for the Hanover High Class of ’24
06-15-2024 7:36 AM

By ALEX HANSON

HANOVER — Education is a series of expanding horizons. Students do their work, fail or succeed, move forward and repeat the process all over again.“The human condition is complex,” Hanover High School Principal Julie Stevenson said at the start of the...


Group defends Vermont public schools
06-14-2024 7:01 PM

By ALEX HANSON

A couple of weeks before Town Meeting Day, longtime Norwich School Board member Neil Odell wrote a letter to future Vermonters about the demise of public education.“Rather than double down on our public education system,” Odell wrote, “we instead...


Art Notes: Summer brings diverse events
06-05-2024 3:23 PM

By ALEX HANSON

After Memorial Day, the arts start to emerge, just like their orthographically similar cousins, ants. It’s warm, occasionally sunny, and the woodwork has grown confining.Arts events seem a bit weirder in the summer, more experimental and free form....

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