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BRATTLEBORO-Sebastian Alvarez knows firsthand that not every student learns the same way.
Now the 16-year-old Brattleboro sophomore will get to make that case to the people who set education policy for the entire state.
BRATTLEBORO-Three candidates are throwing their hats in the ring for Selectboard at Annual Town Election on March 2, 2027. Ruth Houle, a first-time candidate for the Brattleboro Selectboard, is seeking the three-year seat being vacated by Peter Case, who is not seeking re-election. Incumbent Isaac Evans-Frantz and first-time candidate Ed Thanhouser are each seeking a one-year seat on the board. They will formally launch their campaigns on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 2 to 3:30 p.m., at Marigold, 157 Main St.
BRATTLEBORO-Every registered voter in town would be able to take part in Annual Town Meeting, held in January instead of March, and every voter would then get a yes-or-no say on the town budget at the polls in March, under a rewritten town charter proposed by the Brattleboro Charter Revision Commission. The commission presented its recommendations to the Selectboard Oct. 6. The proposed changes will go to a townwide vote Tuesday, March 2, 2027. The recommendations are the commission’s answer...
GRAFTON-The Nature Museum is using new grants to run an expanded pilot program to collaborate with local schools to transform their programs into immersive nature experiences like those found in nature camps. As described in a news release, the schools, which include Saxtons River Elementary School, Grafton Elementary School, Central Elementary School in Bellows Falls, Westminster Center School, Chester-Andover Elementary School, and NewBrook Elementary School in Newfane, are now running longer outdoor programs, “giving students more time to explore and...
BRATTLEBORO-When State Treasurer Mike Pieciak asked his father what he earned after moving to Brattleboro in 1970, the answer was $10,000 — about $80,000 in today’s dollars. On that salary, his father, the family’s only wage earner, supported a child and owned a home. “To think about what family could have one spouse working, have a child, and own a home on an $80,000 salary — it doesn’t feel realistic,” Pieciak told a packed Latchis Theatre on Oct. 28. “What...
BELLOWS FALLS-Last week, several staff and executive board members of the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB) toured housing projects that they have supported around Vermont, including ones in Bellows Falls and Putney. They were joined Oct. 27 by local housing activists and by Elizabeth Bridgewater, the executive director of the Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT), which has worked with the VHCB on several projects in the county, including the recently completed Alice Holway Drive Apartments, which opened on...
-With Democrats otherwise sweeping the statewide races amid a massive nationwide political rout in Tuesday’s midterm general election, Vermont’s incumbent Republican governor was re-elected to his sixth term. Gov. Phil Scott withstood a determined challenge from Democratic/Progressive candidate Amanda Janoo, an economist from Burlington. With 98% of the votes statewide counted at press time, Scott had a 52.4%–46.7% lead on Janoo. Scott had 160,813 votes to Janoo’s 140,665. Bucking her statewide performance, Janoo earned 61% of the votes in Windham...
BRATTLEBORO-A committee tasked with recommending possible mergers among six southern Vermont school districts deferred a decision on how to allocate votes between different-sized districts based on their student populations. The Group 5 merger committee, meeting for the first time on Oct. 7, tabled a vote on how to fulfill a proportional representation requirement under Act 170, the 2026 education reform law, because some members were absent. The law requires the seven study committees statewide to align the number of members...
BRATTLEBORO-Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, seeking to recover from a multimillion-dollar budget deficit, announced Monday that a local businessman has offered a $4 million infusion. Willy Buhlmann, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1970 to found and his Swiss Precision Turning machine shop, is donating the money from its recent sale to the southeastern Vermont healthcare hub's depleted investment account, the hospital reported. "I'm glad I made Brattleboro my home, and I wanted to give something back," Buhlmann said in a statement. "The...
Emma Rose Sheldon is a licensed clinical mental health counselor. BRATTLEBORO-I feel compelled to speak...
KATE TRZASKOS is executive director of the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance. BRATTLEBORO- What does the future...
The writer represents Windham-1 (Guilford and Vernon) in the Vermont Legislature. GUILFORD-Thank you to the...
Chloe Learey is executive director of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development.
BRATTLEBORO-For the first time since 2015, the Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) Annual Galbraith Lecture...
BRATTLEBORO-Sarasa Ensemble performs “Nordic Circle” at the Brattleboro Music Center on Friday, Nov. 13, at...
VERNON-Regional nonprofit Jazzhers will host a jazz clinic for female and nonbinary students in grades...
BRATTLEBORO-Peter Gould’s new novel, Part for the Hole, is about a guy who decides to...
-The Bellows Falls Terriers are now one victory away from winning the Division III state...
-There will be more soccer at Hayford Field in Wilmington this week as both of...
-It has been a great autumn of soccer in the Deerfield Valley so far this...
-The Twin Valley-Leland & Gray soccer rivalry is one of the best in Vermont as...
