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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.
Hurricane Ian, the deadliest storm to hit Florida since 1935, struck the west coast of the state in the early morning hours of Sept. 28. Winds and water from the Category 4 storm ravaged much of central Florida. Preliminary estimates of uninsured losses are topping $17 billion, making Ian one of the 10 most costly storms in U.S. history. At least 102 people are already known to have died, and many people, three weeks later, are still missing. Zachary Rounds,
It's sort of unusual for an institution to have a grand opening ceremony more than a year after opening a new facility, but not much has been usual about the four-year process of Groundworks Collaborative to create a new social service infrastructure for the area. “It doesn't seem like a standard practice to be formally opening the campus after it's been operational and so heavily used for so many months,” said Josh Davis, executive director of the nonprofit, “but between...
Marathon board meetings of the Windham Southeast School District (WSESD) on Tuesday, Oct. 11 and the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union (WSESU) on Wednesday, Oct. 12 ended with one chair intact, the other out of that role, and a call from Superintendent Mark Speno and others to “reset” and board members to “deal with” personality clashes. On Oct. 11, WSESD Board Chair Kelly Young moved that the board censure, or reprimand, herself, for alleged ethics violations. That move was ultimately defeated,
It stands 14 feet tall and is nearing 200 years old, but it's in remarkable shape considering what it has gone through in its long life. A large stained-glass window illustrating Jesus' parable of the “Sower and the Seed” is, as far as anyone can tell, the last such artifact from the former Methodist church which was built in 1835 and once stood at 66 Atkinson St. That building was demolished in December 2021, but with the blessing of the...
Housing in the rural central tier of southern Vermont always has been dependent upon single-family homes. Apartment complexes are rare in most villages. Instead, most residents in southern Vermont have found housing in single-family homes to purchase and apartments to rent in repurposed larger homes or other buildings. Despite waiting lists for low-income or senior housing, that formula seemed to have satisfied the majority of the populace - until COVID-19 hit the East Coast in March of 2020. The pandemic...
Hydro-Québec, a large-scale hydropower company based in Canada from which Vermont draws a significant portion of its electricity, plans to purchase 13 generating stations and three storage reservoirs in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. A subsidiary, HQI US Holding LLC, announced its plan on Oct. 12 to purchase Great River Hydro LLC, an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, for $2 billion. Great River Hydro, based in Westborough, Massachusetts, operates dams, power stations, and storage reservoirs along the Deerfield and Connecticut...
Politicians of all stripes, up and down the ballot, running in Vermont's busiest election cycle in years agree on one thing: Top of mind for most voters is the state's housing crisis. But they do not necessarily agree about how to solve it. And nowhere are the differences in vision more stark than in this year's gubernatorial contest. Thanks in large part to a massive influx of federal cash during the pandemic, Gov. Phil Scott's administration, in partnership with the...
Opioid use has been on a steep increase in Vermont, with a 44% rise in emergency department visits for opioid overdoses between 2018 - a bad year in its own right - and 2021. The average age for a first visit due to an overdose is 38, and 60% are male, and repeat visits are on the rise. Approximately 15% of those who have gone to an ER for an opioid overdose will have a repeat visit, 50% of those...
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...
