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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.
Charlotte Bishop was standing at her kitchen window in January 2019 when she saw water streaming into her yard. A block of ice had clogged the brook that snakes around the mobile home park where she and her husband Rollin live. Bishop grabbed her keys and rushed outside to move their cars to higher ground. Within minutes, she was wading through knee-high water. Bishop lives in Tri-Park Cooperative in Brattleboro, Vermont's largest and oldest resident-owned mobile home community. The co-op...
A little over a year ago, when her mother, Jean Brady, was a patient at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, Susan MacNeil got the call. Brady was 94, in declining health, and her hearing had become seriously diminished. The call was not unexpected, but it's one you never are really prepared for. “I think this is it - I'm dying,” Brady told her daughter in Bellows Falls. In the hospital, where they talked every day, Brady had been in intensive care, where...
When the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a knockout blow to Strolling of the Heifers in the fall of 2020 that resulted in the suspension of the nonprofit's operations, an end to its annual parade, and the sale of the River Garden, many speculated over what would happen to what remained of the organization. On Dec. 14, the Vermont Secretary of State recorded a change of name from the Strolling of the Heifers to Agritech Institute for Small Farms, Inc. On Dec.
What's it like to make history? “A moment that will stay with me for the rest of my life was waking up the morning after the election, on very little sleep, and hearing my wife say, 'Good morning, Congresswoman,'” Vermont's new Democratic U.S. representative-elect, Rebecca A. “Becca” Balint, 54, said shortly after the election. Weeks later, the enormity of what she's accomplished is still sinking in. “I couldn't feel it on Election Night,” she said. “I honestly felt so out...
When Charlie Slate drove his wife to work on Christmas morning in 1981 only to realize no restaurants were open, he didn't foresee the free breakfast he offered to cook the next year would attract 50 people. Or grow into an annual gathering. Or live on after his death. Or that it would anticipate feeding upward of 1,000 people and mark its 40th year this year - and that it would likely be its last because of the snowballing success.
On Jan. 13, Karen Peterson will step down as the executive director of Brattleboro's AIDS Project of Southern Vermont (APSV), and Samba Diallo will move into that position. Peterson has been at APSV for 30 years, since 1993, and Diallo has most recently run the project's Harm Reduction Program. APSV was started in 1987, one of the earliest grass roots organizations ever formed as the world began to recognize and respond to the AIDS epidemic. In 1981, rare types of...
Five days ahead of the winter solstice, Vermont got its first major snowstorm of the season. A nor'easter on Dec. 16 and 17 brought between 10 and 26 inches of snow to Windham County, with the most snow falling on the highest elevation towns. Snow totals from the storm in Windham Country as reported to the National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y. ranged from about 11 inches in West Brattleboro and Rockingham, to 13 inches in West Halifax, 14 inches...
The police department, which has dealt with a nationwide staffing shortage by subtracting work shifts, is launching a pilot program to test something else: Adding civilians. The force - which is budgeted for 27 officers but has only 18, just two-thirds its full complement - has unveiled plans for a proposed Brattleboro Resources Assistance Team (BRAT) to help with administrative tasks that don't require tactical training. “The program will allow for us to continue to provide all of the services...
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...
