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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.
In 2020, Nurnia Bowart and Jared Williams, friends and colleagues who are both in the midst of life transitions, decided to become business partners and buy a 48-acre former inn. As they transform the property into an arts education nonprofit, The Field Center, they are creating what Bowart describes as “a center for contemporary art practices, with dance and performance at its heart.” No strangers to alternative education, Bowart and Williams met while attending The Putney School in the late...
The Vermont Legislature has approved a two-year extension of COVID-19-era options for how and when the state’s 247 cities and towns decide upon local leaders, spending, and special articles. Bill H.42 mirrors legislation passed in 2021 and 2022 that allowed municipalities to make short-term, pandemic-safe changes to Town Meeting — traditionally held on or around the first Tuesday in March — and gather governing boards solely online. “With the rising cases of Covid variants, there’s a real question in a...
As much as any provider within the state’s strained mental health system, the staff at the Brattleboro Retreat are attuned to the fact that every day Vermonters in crisis wait for care in emergency departments across the state. That’s why they are pushing to get back to pre-COVID-19 levels of inpatient beds as quickly as possible, and why they just launched a new ambulance transport service pilot program through a contract with Rescue Inc. “The Retreat will be over that...
Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) Superintendent Mark Speno has been given a two-year contract. WSESU board members Chair Kerry Amidon, Michelle Luetjen Green, Liz Adams, Kelly Young, and Tim Maciel voted unanimously on Jan. 11 to authorize Amidon to negotiate and sign the agreement. “Congratulations,” Amidon said as applause erupted in the room. “Thank you,” replied Speno. “I am grateful and appreciative of the extension,” Speno told The Commons after the meeting. “I look forward to continuing to work with...
Whether the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) should keep the current one-person principal mentor position or eliminate it and study the situation saw support from administrators from most schools in the Union at the Jan. 11 board meeting. In the current model, former Academy School Principal Andy Paciulli has been serving as sole mentor to district administrators. “The question for me is: How do we invest in leadership and support growth in leadership?” said Superintendent Mark Speno, who had been...
Was it just a couple of months ago, for the very first time, that Vermont decided to send a woman to the U.S. Congress? She was one of our own, a Brattleboro resident, a former Vermont Senate president pro tem, an idealistic, gay, married, mother-of-two, progressive woman who thought she was elected to fight for mental health, reproductive rights and housing for her constituents — which now, because she is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, encompasses the...
When Covid-19 struck in March 2020, one of the early casualties was the closing of the Uniformed Services Program (USP) at the Brattleboro Retreat, Vermont’s largest psychiatric hospital. USP, launched in 2009, brought in first responders from around the country, helping former and current military members, police, firefighters, emergency response personnel, etc. deal with the aftereffects of intense trauma — in particular, post-traumatic stress disorder. What was originally intended to be a short-term shutdown of the program turned into a...
It sounds like a proverbial grade-school math problem: How do you accommodate 250 people with only 234 beds? It’s a real-life predicament for human service workers here who report options at the local homeless shelter and state-subsidized motel-room program have reached historic highs — yet still aren’t enough. “Even as the number of shelter beds and motel rooms has increased, the need for these opportunities has grown at a faster rate,” said Jon Hoover, operations director at the Groundworks Collaborative,
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...
