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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.
Most people traveling past the sprawling retaining wall on High Street across from the High-Grove parking lot used to see the same pattern: spray-painted swear words, followed by a slapped-on coat of gray cover-up, followed by even more graffiti. Jamie Mohr envisioned something else. As director of downtown's Epsilon Spires, Mohr has helped turn the former First Baptist Church into a 425-seat performing arts space. When she heard complaints about the nearby wall, she decided to find a way to...
A few months ago, the Rich Earth Institute opened a new urine recycling depot at the Rockingham/Westminster Recycling Center on Route 5 in Westminster, only the latest in the nonprofit organization's cutting-edge program focused on reusing human waste as fertilizer. As human population grows, how to handle increasing human waste is a big problem, and the Rich Earth Project, based in Brattleboro for over a decade, has garnered international attention as nations around the globe wrestle with this issue. As...
Brattleboro Union High School (BUHS) Principal Steve Perrin has been fired. Windham Southeast School District Board Chair Kelly Young called for a vote in open session following approximately half an hour of executive session on Tuesday, Nov. 8. She cited state law that outlines the procedure for dismissal of a principal. The vote was unanimous, with no discussion. According to the statute, Perrin, who lives in New Hampshire, has 15 days to request a hearing. The board then has another...
A woman's place is in the House...of Representatives. Vermont made history on Election Day as Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint, D-Brattleboro, cruised to an easy victory in her race for the state's lone Congressional seat. Balint became the first woman - and the first openly gay woman - Vermont has sent to Congress, when she trounced Republican Liam Madden of Rockingham. Vermont had been the last state to never have had a woman represent it on Capitol Hill. With...
When Peter Galbraith heard that Russia had invaded neighboring Ukraine last winter, the former U.S. ambassador and United Nations envoy figured the headlines would melt by spring. “The expectation on the part of many Western analysts - I have to say myself included - was that the Russians would prevail in a quick victory,” the Townshend resident said. Nearly a year later, Galbraith recently returned from a trip to the scene of Ukraine's surprisingly tenacious resistance. “Wars very rarely go...
For nearly 50 years, William “Bill” Holiday taught history through immersion - having students learn by reading primary sources, visiting places where some of the most important events of the 20th century took place, and talking to the people who were in the middle of it all. The Windham Southeast School District teacher retired from classroom teaching in 2020, but is still very much an educator. His newest project is a self-published book, Beyond the Classroom, which captures his teaching...
Robert “Bob” Thibault has been named Superintendent of the Windham Central Supervisory Union (WCSU). Thibault, 51, will replace William Anton, who has been in the post since 2015 and is moving on to other things. “Well, for the first time in a quarter century, my wife and I get to make some decisions about what we want to do in life,” Anton said about his future. “Our offspring are grown, independent, and out of the house, living in Boston (Colette,
Soft snow fencing and handwritten signs proclaiming the possible presence of lead paint have had residents of the Windham and Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) property at 27 Old Depot Rd. concerned for months. Now, as the window for outdoor work starts to close, they're more worried - but there may be no lead paint at all on the site, and WWHT leaders say the signs emerged not from any new evidence of lead but out of compliance with state regulations...
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...
