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The Better Places Roadshow visited Guilford and Brattleboro to see how state grants improved local projects, including a new park and a community mural.

In-Sight Photography will announce the winners of its youth photo contest on Saturday, Sept. 30, at an award ceremony in Brattleboro, VT.

Guilford Community Park opens Sunday, Sept. 24 with live music and a pavilion. Locals can bring a picnic and dancing shoes.

Heart Rose Club in Brattleboro offers food, drinks, yoga, massage therapy, and more in a former Shriners building. Owner Tara Cheney aims to create a community space.

Guilford is holding a caucus to organize a Republican Town Committee on Sept. 19. All interested residents are invited to attend. Meeting to follow. Call for more info.

Guilford Cares will visit Fort Dummer State Park on Sept. 12, exploring its history and trails. Day-use fee is $5, but pass can be covered.

GUILFORD — An original Guilford Community Church production of drama, music and dance, "The Pageant of the Parables." will be performed by local talent at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 5, and 10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 6 in the Guilford Community Park Pavilion at 24 Church Drive, in Guilford. All proceeds will benefit Vermont Flood Relief.

GUILFORD — Erin Harpe Country Blues Duo with Jim Countryman will perform at 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the Springs Farm, 49 Carpenter Hill Road in Guilford.

GUILFORD — On a sunny day on a farm in Guilford, people and horses milled about. A local artist played a wooden flute, sometimes directly to the horses. In a pond, water bugs cast shadows three times their size.

First state park sign with Abenaki name at Sweet Pond

GUILFORD — The Broad Brook Grange will present its 23rd annual Father’s Day Brunch from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 18, at the Broad Brook Community Center.

GUILFORD — As musicians set up for a set at the first-ever Field Day festival, children — two in fleece dinosaur suits — played on the grass in front of the stage.

GUILFORD — Vermont Arts Council has visited Guilford Central School over the past year to create projects based on the seasons. In the spring, the theme was flowers so the students made seed paper and flowers that will be turned into greeting cards. In the winter, kids made snow-themed cards and the school made them available for sale to families. They raised $700 to support their pen pals at the Tumani Academy in Kenya and the community there was able to build two classrooms and a bathroom.

GUILFORD — White Church: Check.

BRATTLEBORO — The AIDS Project of Southern Vermont’s 36th annual Walk for Life in downtown Brattleboro on May 20 raised $25,500 to support people with HIV and support community prevention and education programs in Windham and Bennington counties.

GUILFORD — A well-established Brattleboro music venue is bringing a new festival to Southern Vermont.

GUILFORD — Community members are invited to hear stories from those who attended the town’s one-room schoolhouses at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 30, at the Broad Brook Community Center.

GUILFORD — A spring tradition, the Memorial Day Weekend Pie Sale of the Guilford Community Church will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 27, at the corner of Route 5 and Guilford Center Road.

Having a Field Day: New festival brings indie-rock and Vermont vibes to Guilford

GUILFORD — The Christ Church Guilford Society is planning outdoor events this summer to be held on the lawn of Christ Church. Located across from the Guilford Country Store in Algiers, Christ Church is the first Episcopal church in Vermont and mother church to St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro.

Filmed in Bernardston, Leyden, Colrain, Ashfield, and Guilford, Vermont, “Root Hog or Die” follows the arc of one agricultural year, starting with Nellie and Stubby Howe and their Guilford sugaring operation.

MONTPELIER — During a hearing before the Vermont Supreme Court, a Guilford resident accused the chairman of the Guilford Select Board of colluding to withhold public documents.

BRATTLEBORO — If the violent event that starts Chuck Collins’ debut novel was fodder for a news headline, the words “suicide bomber” and perhaps “ecoterrorist” would be used.

GUILFORD — Guilford Center Stage returns after a three-year “intermission” with a production of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford. Performances are at 7 p.m. on May 5 and 6, and at 2 p.m. on May 7. Ian Hefele directs a cast from the tri-state region.