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By Patrick O’Grady

Springfield, Vt. — When a private, enclosed space for nursing mothers was placed in Boston’s Fenway Park a year ago, 20 mothers used it during the first game.When another one of the freestanding lactation suites, now being manufactured by Konrad...

By Nicola Smith

For parents of children who attend public school, but who also would like them to attend Raven’s Wood Outdoor School for Renegades one day a week, there is an obstacle.Because Vermont’s Agency of Education does not yet recognize Raven’s Wood as an...

By Nicola Smith

As the fog lifted over a hillside on a chilly Wednesday morning, a small group of children in the Raven’s Wood Outdoor School for Renegades in Thetford Center, a program that offers outdoor education to children from kindergarten through 8th grade,...

BY DAVID CORRIVEAUVALLEY NEWS STAFF WRITERMore than a quarter of a century and dozens of plays later, Jim Nicola likes to tell the tale of how the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) started sending emerging playwrights and directors to Dartmouth...

By David Corriveau

For her first act on stage, Christine Williamson performed in a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a fourth-grader at Enfield Village School.For her latest act, she will enter playwright Maura Campbell’s nightmare on Sunday night.Williamson,...

School dress codes are like sleeping giants. That’s according to Alice Worth, superintendent of Windsor Central Supervisory Union, who’s among those dealing with an uproar at Woodstock Union Middle School. The rumbling and grumbling began April 22,...

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

W. Hartford Library Leak Goes Unfixed- West Hartford — The new $900,000 West Hartford Library building has had a leak in the roof since last summer, and no one knows how much damage it’s caused, library officials said Friday.The leak was discovered in August 2015, according to West...