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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.
With less than a week to go before Election Day on Nov. 8, the election season in Vermont has been relatively tranquil, compared to other states. A number of statewide races in Vermont are contested, and in the state House and Senate races, Republicans and some unaffiliated candidates have mounted challenges to Democratic incumbents. Two proposed amendments to the Vermont Constitution also appear on this year's ballot. Here's who and what will be on your ballot in Windham County on...
Just off the common, in a gray house with hundreds of consignment items tucked into seven rooms, the Second Chance Shoppe is celebrating 40 years in business. On a recent day, new Vermonters Grace and Brayden recently moved from Buffalo, New York, to Stratton. They arrived at Second Chance Shoppe because they were spending their Saturday “going around to some thrift shops because it's a fun hobby, and it saves money,” says Grace. “And look,” Brayden says, pointing to an...
Ask Vermonter Jody Williams about how she won the Nobel Peace Prize for days of tireless effort and she'll instead tell you about how she wound up with it one night in her sleep. It all started Oct. 10, 1997, when a Norwegian television staffer phoned at 4 in the morning to announce that Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines - a global network of individuals and institutions she helped coordinate - had won the world's most prestigious...
When Cassie Damkoehler came to Brattleboro Union High School as dean of students a year ago, administrators who once thought their biggest problem was the coronavirus had just discovered a gun in a student vehicle and graffiti threats about “killing you all.” Damkoehler kept her cool as higher-ups defused the situation last fall. Then they had to launch a faculty sexual misconduct investigation last winter. Place the principal on paid leave without explanation last spring. Watch his assistant ship out...
Longtime Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) representative and current Vice Chair David Schoales has left his elected seat on the board. His resignation, sent to the district's central office last week, became effective on Oct. 22. Asked why he has decided to step down now, Schoales responded that recent public diatribe against the board has risen to an unpalatable level. He said he feels he can be more helpful if he is no longer a board member. “The ugliness does...
When Vermont Senate President Pro Tem Becca Balint, who is running for the state's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, attended a grand opening event for Groundworks Collaborative's new shelter and administrative offices on Oct. 13, she came not as a politician, but as a neighbor. Balint and her family live on South Main Street, just up the hill from Groundworks. She knows firsthand what the nonprofit does and whom it helps. Calling the staff “the real heroes,
Gul, Sakina, and family: A new garden growsGul was a police officer and scout for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Raised without schooling in a rural area, his family continues to farm in the hills outside Paktia. His wife, Sakina, has no schooling, and his daughter had only just begun school - though his sons were excellent students and sportsmen. In August 2021, his commanding officer called him and told him to gather his wife and children and to find...
Nearly a year ago, community leaders gathered in the Cotton Mill for an event launching southern Vermont's efforts to welcome and resettle more than 100 evacuees from Afghanistan. These evacuees fled their homeland in August 2021 with the collapse of the Kabul-based Afghan government and the subsequent takeover of the country by the Taliban. They eventually ended up in Vermont at the beginning of this year, with the campus of the SIT/World Learning in Brattleboro as their first stop. Weeks...
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...
