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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.
The Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) will hold a public hearing about the proposed fiscal year 2024 school operating/capital budgets on Tuesday, March 21 in the Brattleboro Union High School gymnasium. Business Manager Frank Rucker says he believes the board “supports this budget as a fiscally responsible plan to respond to our school's student and community needs.” The proposed $62,704,054 general operating budget for FY 2024 represents a $1,620,583 or 2.7 percent increase to this year's operating budget. However, the...
Here are some other results that did not make it into our Town Meeting Roundup in the March 8 edition: • After a lengthy debate, Rockingham voters approved spending $6,000 for a part-time contract with the Windham County Sheriff's Department to patrol Bartonsville and other rural sections of the town. • Voters in Jamaica and Londonderry both approved 1% local option taxes, while Halifax opted to pass on making a decision. According to the Department of Taxes, 49 Vermont municipalities...
As has been the case for about a year, the Tuesday, Feb. 28 Windham Southeast School District school board agenda included “sexual abuse investigation update” under the heading of “unfinished business.” Until that meeting, there has been virtually no update as board members say they are taking their cues from legal counsel. Several people, including Brattleboro Union High School alum Mindy Haskins Rogers, who broke the story of a history and culture of sexual abuse in the district in her...
Incumbent Selectboard member Elizabeth McLoughlin held on to her three-year seat, while newcomers Peter “Fish” Case and Franz Reichsman won one-year seats on the board in the March 7 town election. Meanwhile, voters rejected a referendum on “just cause” eviction in a 1,221-656 vote. All the Selectboard races were close. McLoughlin won her second three-year term over former board member Dick DeGray, 1,005–920. McLoughlin told The Commons last month that she sees the greatest challenges for Brattleboro in the next...
“There's plenty more food, please take more,” called a Whitingham Ladies Benevolent Society member as Town Meeting attendees chatted with neighbors and ate a meal of homemade lasagna, salad, and pies in the Twin Valley Middle High School cafeteria. Annual Town Meeting began with a presentation by Rep. Tristan Roberts, D-Halifax. It ended with applause for Selectboard Office Administrator Gib Zaboray, who worked to bring in $1 million in grant funding to repair the town's two aging sewer plants. Voters...
Results of the fall school climate survey show some areas of school life have improved slightly since spring 2022. On Feb. 28, Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) school board directors heard an initial presentation and summary of results based on a survey from Panorama Education, which offers the assessing tool “to improve educational outcomes with a holistic view of student data.” Presenter Dr. Chris Overtree, a psychologist hired by the District in February 2022 to help with the process, said...
Town Meeting Day always has a festive air about it at the Putney Central School gymnasium. The eighth-graders set up a table filled with homemade treats for sale as a fundraiser for their class trip. Information tables from the town library, the Conservation Commission, the Putney Foodshelf, and other nonprofits take up the outer edges of one half of the gym, right across from the voting booths. The other half of the gym, divided by a large curtain, is devoted...
For more than a month, members of the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union (WNESU) community have told school officials they don't want Principal John Broadley to leave. An online petition to keep Broadley in his current role had more than 1,020 signatures as of March 3. But the principal - who told the school board last month that he would not renew his role at Bellows Falls Union High School - apparently doesn't want to talk about it. At a March...
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...
